Quantitative Methods

Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits When Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons
Standard methods for measuring latent traits from categorical data assume that response functions are monotonic. This assumption is …
JBrandon Duck-Mayr, Jacob Montgomery
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Inference in Gaussian Process Models for Political Science
Political scientists often seek to perform inference in settings where knowledge about the functional form mapping predictors to …
JBrandon Duck-Mayr
Sep 1, 2021
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GPIRT: A Gaussian Process Model for Item Response Theory
The goal of item response theoretic (IRT) models is to provide estimates of latent traits from binary observed indicators and at the …
JBrandon Duck-Mayr, Roman Garnett, Jacob Montgomery
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