Collapsing or Not? A Practical Guide to Handling Sparse Responses for Polytomous Items
In ordinal data analysis, category collapse is the process of combining adjacent response options to create fewer response categories than were originally measured. When collapsing response categories, researchers need to be aware of inducing data-model misfit and of obtaining biased parameter estim...
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| Language: | English |
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PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Methodology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5964/meth.14303 |
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