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"This book follows a well established approach to the psychometric analysis of questionnaire data as found in educational, survey and medical research. The authors provide an in-depth discussion of the analysis of score reliability and item properties grounded in classical test theory (CTT), and of the probabilistic modeling of individual responses based on latent variable models. … Chapter 5 is a bit different and focus on the estimation of item and person parameters and the diagnostic of IRT models. The first part is rather technical but it does a good job at describing Statistical Analysis of Questionnaires the pros and cons of each technique–joint, conditional and marginal maximum likelihood–and how they could be implemented using custom software. … The authors conclude (…) by highlighting multidimensional IRT models which allow to relax the strong hypothesis of unidimensionality that is attached to all previous models, as well as the main strengths of structural equation models which can be viewed as providing the glue between factor analytic methods and IRT.
Overall, the authors succeed at presenting a solid and reliable framework for psychometric analysis of questionnaire data."
— Christophe Lalanne, Paris-Diderot University, in the Journal of Statistical Software, November 2017

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