Víthor Rosa Franco
@vthorrf
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Assistant Professor in Psychometrics at São Francisco University 🇧🇷 #rstats #bayes #psychometrics #machinelearning
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Joined February 2014
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Hey peeps! Sharing a collaboration I am glad to have had the opportunity to be a part of We use measurement theory and psychometrics to develop indices that indicate the magnitude of ordering for Likert-type scales Simulations and empirical examples are also provided 😊
Signposts on the Path from Nominal to Ordinal Scales
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Plus, there are two empirical examples thoroughly discussed with available R code and data! Of course, the examples only cover two specific cases that may not suit your own research interests. But I hope they will serve as inspiration for your next project 😊
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RT @Advances1n: 🚨Publication Alert! Franco et al. present a new approach for Bayesian Gaussian graphical models allows for more flexibility…
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To help those who wish to try our ideas out, @mcmc_stan #stan code is available in the Supplemental Material and we've also put up an R package with the models tested in the paper:
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Do you like intelligence/reasoning, explanatory IRT, and Bayesian modeling? So check out our new paper! We provide some interesting new insights in all these aspects 🙃
Modeling directly the attributes shared by the items contributes to the understanding of response processes. Read the paper by Eduar S. Ramírez, @SkeptPsych, @vthorrf and Jesús M. Alvarado here:
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