Sentence examples for items threshold from inspiring English sources

By considering these threshold values, we verified the impact of different sizes of term sets, as well as what types of terms should be regarded: those more specific, i.e., that may appear in at least two items (threshold 1) or those more general, i.e., that may appear in a larger set of items (threshold 200).

The invariance of items threshold across gender and over time cannot be investigated for those items whose factor loadings were freed in the assessment of metric invariance; thus complete longitudinal scalar invariance could not be reached.

Indeed, looking at intra-group variation over time, one notes that, in men, five of the six items (i.e., items A, B, C, D and E) had similar items threshold at cycles 4 and 7 and thus reached scalar invariance whereas, in women, differences in items thresholds between these cycles were trivial for most non-invariant items (e.g., item B: 0.29 vs. 0.32 for the 1st threshold).

The patterns of the items' thresholds were examined and 5/39 items displayed borderline disordering.

In this study, it translates into lower factor loadings and items thresholds for some items at cycle 1 than in cycles 4 and 7.

The five items (A, B, D, E and F) whose factors loadings were invariant across gender at cycle 1 also had invariant items thresholds at that cycle.

Finally, it is noticeable that the differences in items thresholds at cycle 4 compared to cycle 7 were specific to women.

d The constraint of equal items thresholds was relaxed for items A (so sad nothing could cheer you up), B and D (hopeless) at cycle 4 and for items C (restless or fidgety), D and F at cycle 7.

Hence, we distinguish between the genuine effects, reflected by changes in variance and factor mean, and changes in the functioning of the measurement instrument, which may be reflected by changes in the factor loadings and items thresholds.

No item threshold disordering was observed.

a Item threshold range covered person measure percentage.