coefZ {mokken}R Documentation

Computation of Z-Values

Description

Computes Zij-values of item pairs, Zi-values of items, and Z-value of the entire scale, which are used to test whether Hij, Hi, and H, respectively, are significantly greater than zero.

Used in the function search.normal

Usage

coefZ(X)

Arguments

X matrix or data frame of numeric data containing the responses of nrow(X) respondents to ncol(X) items. Missing values are not allowed

Value

Zij matrix containing the z-values of the item-pairs
Zi vector containing z-values of the items
Z real z-value of the entire scale

Author(s)

L. A. van der Ark a.vdark@uvt.nl

References

Mokken, R. J. (1971) A Theory and Procedure of Scale Analysis. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter.

Molenaar, I.W. and Sijtsma, K. (2000) User's Manual MSP5 for Windows [Software manual]. Groningen, The Netherlands: IEC ProGAMMA.

Van der Ark, L. A. (2007). Mokken scale analysis in R. Journal of Statistical Software. http://www.jstatsoft.org

See Also

coefH, search.normal

Examples

data(acl)
Communality <- acl[,1:10]
coefH(Communality)
coefZ(Communality)

[Package mokken version 1.4 Index]