In item response theory modelling, one assumption refers to the local independence of items (Bond and Fox 2007).
But Proposition 31 simply fails to deal with the big-ticket items: bond measures, which add new annual payment obligations, and voter initiatives, which routinely impose new costs without identifying new revenue.
To test the assumption that each question was valid, we assessed item fit (Bond and Fox 2001) using the eRM package in R (Mair and Hatzinger 2007).
This procedure estimates the location of people in a latent continuum as result of participants' responses following the probability of a specified response (e.g., I did not use this strategy/I used it occasionally/I used it often and I used it a lot) modeled as a function of person and item parameters (Bond and Fox 2015).
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The item assessing bonding among the CM and all TTMs (item 4) demonstrated high correlations with the other variables, therefore it was removed.
Fisher et al 30 used the 24-item Intimate Bond measure to assess the quality of the intimate relationship and its association with antenatal and postnatal perinatal depression in Vietnam, but the cross-sectional nature of study limits conclusions regarding direction of causation.
