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 Arjan Berkeljon posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2011 - 4:29 am
I am fitting a bifactor IRT model using MLR with 4 latent factors (one primary, three group factors) onto 42 items of categorical data (three categories). Mplus provides a loglikelihood that I have used to test fit against a unidimensional IRT model (-2ll, using scaled X^2). Is there any other way I might judge the fit of the bifactor model with information Mplus provides?
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2011 - 1:49 pm
You should look at TECH10 which gives univariate, bivariate, and response variable model fit information for the categorical dependent variables in a model.
 Arjan Berkeljon posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2011 - 3:19 pm
Thank you. A loglikelihood test suggest superior fit for the bifactor model over the unidimensional model. The bifactor model does have many significant bivariate residuals, however. I wonder if from this I would conclude that, although my data is multidimensional, the bifactor structure may not account for its multidimensionality adequately. Would this be correct? I know I have provided little in terms of context, but I wonder if you see any other interpretations of these findings?
 Linda K. Muthen posted on Thursday, November 03, 2011 - 11:30 am
This sounds correct.
 Arjan Berkeljon posted on Saturday, November 05, 2011 - 7:24 am
I noticed that BVRs are given per category for categorical items. In the data I am using the category response distributions (3 categories) show substantial positive skew. Might this have any bearing on the many significant BVRs?
 Bengt O. Muthen posted on Saturday, November 05, 2011 - 10:49 am
No, non-symmetric distributions for categorical variables do not necessarily create misfit.
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