著者

Takamitsu HASHIMOTO Maomi UENO

出版者

The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

雑誌

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (ISSN:09168532)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.E94.D, no.4, pp.743-753, 2011-04-01 (Released:2011-04-01)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

4 4

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Item response theory (IRT) is widely used for test analyses. Most models of IRT assume that a subject's responses to different items in a test are statistically independent. However, actual situations often violate this assumption. Thus, conditional independence (CI) tests among items given a latent ability variable are needed, but traditional CI tests suffer from biases. This study investigated a latent conditional independence (LCI) test given a latent variable. Results show that the LCI test can detect CI given a latent variable correctly, whereas traditional CI tests often fail to detect CI. Application of the LCI test to mathematics test data revealed that items that share common alternatives might be conditionally dependent.