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 Billy Buchanan posted on Monday, January 23, 2017 - 4:43 pm
Just wondering if there were any examples of how to fit a many facet Rasch model in Mplus? This would be used when trying to fit a model that would adjust for rater effects on the scale for an individual (e.g., when multiple experts observe an individual on the job and rate their performance).
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - 2:46 pm
Can you show me in formulas what the many-facet Rasch model looks like?
 Billy Buchanan posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 2:23 am
Hi Bengt,

Linacre (1994) defines the model as:

ln(P_{nijk}/P_{nijk-1}) = B_{n} - D_{i} - C_{j} - F_{k}

Where
P_{nijk} is the probability of the nth examinee earning the kth rating from the jth judge on the ith item
P_{nijk-1} is the probability of the nth examinee earning the kth - 1 rating from the jth judge on the ith item
B_{n} is the ability (Theta) of the nth examinee
D_{i} is the difficulty of the ith item
C_{j} is the severity of the jth judge
F_{k} is the difficulty of the step up from the kth-1 category k and k=1,M (p 1)

Linacre, J. M. (1994). Many-Facet Rasch Measurement. Chicago, IL: MESA Press.
 Billy Buchanan posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 2:23 am
In Engelhard (2013) the model is presented as:

Psi_nmik = exp(Theta_n - Lambda_m - Delta_i - Tau_k) / 1 + exp(Theta_n - Lambda_m - Delta_i - Tau_k)

The category response function is written as:

PI_nmij = exp(Sigma_{j=0}^{k}(Theta_n - Lambda_m - Delta_i - Tau_k)) / Sigma_{r=0}^{mi}exp(Sigma_{j=0}^{r}(Theta_n - Lambda_m - Delta_i - Tau_k))

Where Theta_n is the judged ability of the nth person, Lambda_m is the severity of the mth rater, Delta_i is the judged difficulty of the ith domain, and Tau_k is the difficulty of scoring in the kth category relative to the k-1 category (p. 200).

Engelhard, G. (2013) Invariant Measurement: Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences. New York City, NY: Routledge.
 Billy Buchanan posted on Friday, January 27, 2017 - 12:59 am
There's a bit more detail available in this article without having to find/dig through a book if it helps:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228465956_Many-facet_Rasch_measurement
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 1:23 pm
I would think this is doable in Mplus but I have not done it. Take a look at Section 4 of our IRT note:

http://www.statmodel.com/download/MplusIRT.pdf

where we discuss the (Generalized) Partial Credit model (your model has some similarities to it). Here we give a reference to a 2015 article by Huggins-Manly & Algina which discussed how Mplus' nominal outcome modeling can be arranged to handle GPC (although GPC is now automated in Mplus) using Model Constraint. Similarly, your model should be doable. Perhaps Lambda is a fixed effect - if so, it could be handled by dummy covariates. Maybe someone on SEMNET has tried this model in Mplus.
 Billy Buchanan posted on Sunday, January 29, 2017 - 8:01 am
I think in the Facets software lamba is treated as a fixed effect. There also seems to be more flexible ways to recover the parameters using different types of mixed effects models discussed here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Gaertner/publication/289527493_Cross-classified_Random_Effects_Models_for_Assessing_Rater_Severity_and_Differential_Rater_Functioning/links/572ab0e108ae2efbfdbc244d.pdf?origin=publication_list

The random effects models seem like they would provide more options for estimating different types of rater effects based on the specific model used. For these types of models I'm not exactly sure how the data need to be structured to estimate the parameters of interest (e.g., does the data need to be normalized to the point where each record represents each possible choice per item for each item and rater combination with a series of dummy indicators for the selected response per item and rater combination).
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