IECV {BifactorIndicesCalculator}

IECV

Description

Computes an ECV index for each item which can be interpreted as the proportion of common variance of that item due to the general factor. Stucky and Edelen (2015, p. 201) define I-ECV, which is also computed in the Excel version of the bifactor indices calculator (Dueber, 2017).

Usage

IECV(Lambda)

Arguments

Lambda

is a matrix of factor loadings. Be sure that all factors have the same variance before calling this function.

Details

IECV is called by bifactorIndices and the various convenience functions for exploratory models and/or Mplus output, which are the only functions in this package intended for casual users.

Value

A vector of item ECVs

References

Dueber, D. M. (2017). Bifactor Indices Calculator: A Microsoft Excel-based tool to calculate various indices relevant to bifactor CFA models. doi: 10.13023/edp.tool.01

Stucky, B. D., & Edelen, M. O. (2015). Using hierarchical IRT models to create unidimensional measures from multidimensional data. In S. P. Reise & D. A. Revicki (Eds.), Handbook of item response theory modeling: Applications to typical performance assessment (pp.183-206). New York: Routledge.

See Also

ECV_SS, ECV_SG, ECV_GS, bifactorIndices

Examples

Lambda <- matrix(c(.82, .10,   0,   0,
                   .77, .35,   0,   0,
                   .79, .32,   0,   0,
                   .66, .39,   0,   0,
                   .51,   0, .71,   0,
                   .56,   0, .43,   0,
                   .68,   0, .13,   0,
                   .60,   0, .50,   0,
                   .83,   0,   0, .47,
                   .60,   0,   0, .27,
                   .78,   0,   0, .28,
                   .55,   0,   0, .75),
                   ncol = 4, byrow = TRUE)
colnames(Lambda) <- c("General", "SF1", "SF2", "SF3")
IECV(Lambda)