New Developments in Psychometrics

Psychometric Engineering as Art: Variations on a Theme.- Vectors and Matrices in Psychometrics with Special Emphasis on Generalized Inverse and Projection Matrices.- Early Statistical Modelling of Latent Quantities: The History of Distance Measurement by Triangulation.- Relationships among Various Kinds of Eigenvalue and Singular Value Decompositions.- Power of ?2Goodness-of-fit Tests in Structural Equation Models: the Case of Non-Normal Data.- The Respondent-Generated Intervals Approach to Sample Surveys: From Theory to Experiment.- Student Profile Scoring Methods for Informative Assessmen.- The Determinants of the Bias in Minimum Rank Factor Analysis (MRFA).- A Note on the Approximate Distributions of Fit Indexes for Misspecified Structural Equation Models.- Longitudinal Study of Early Chinese Linguistics Growth: Revealing Sequential Relations of Linguistic Antecedents and Consequences.- Some Cautionary Notes on Factor Loadings Estimated by Principal Component Analysis.- Simultaneous Mean and Covariance Structure Analysis for Two Level Structural Equation Models on EQS.- On Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Equation Models.- Use of SEM Programs to Precisely Measure Scale Reliability.- Estimating the Statistical Power in Small Samples by Empirical Distributions.- Language Selection and Social Structure Transition in Ukraine from 1959 to 1989.- Identifying Influential Observations for Loadings in Factor Analysis.- Effects of Self-disclosure and Self-preoccupation on Depression.- Developments in Practical Nonparametric IRT Scale Analysis.- Groups of Persons and Groups of Items in Nonparametric Item Response Theory.- Bias of Ability Estimates Using Warm’s Weighted Likelihood Estimator (WLE) in the Generalized Partial Credit Model (GPCM).- Item Selection in Polytomous CAT.- Bayesian Checks on Outlying Response Times in Computerized Adaptive Testing.- Construct Comparability in International Assessments: Comparability of English and French Versions of TIMSS.- Are the Japanese More Depressed than the U.S. Individuals? — An IRT DIF Study.- General and Specific Misfit of Nonparametric IRT-models.- Application of IRT in Assessment of Chewing Ability..- The Effects of the Temporal Structure and the Presentation Modality on English Listening Comprehension Test.- Estimating Testing Time Extension Ratios for Students with Disabilities from Item Cumulative Curves.- The Effect of Clustered Objective Probability Scoring with Truncation (T-COPS) on Reliability.- A Framework for Reusing Assessment Components.- Investigating the Local Fit of Item-score Vectors.- Developing a Domain-referenced Test Given a Selection Ratio and a Cut-off Score: An Application of Item Response Theory.- Investigating,Cross-cultural Differences in Crying Using Manifest Invariant Item Ordering.- Bayesian Regressions for Cross-validation: An Application.- Validity and Truth.- The Hierarchical Theory of Justification and Statistical Model Selection.- Robust Designs for Longitudinal Mixed Effects Models.- On Conditional Distribution of Sliced Inverse Regression Model.- Uniqueness Properties of Three-way Component Models with Offset Terms.- An Assessment of Non-monotonicity of Missing-data Patterns for Incomplete Multivariate Data.- A Unified Approach to Oblique Procrustes Problems.- Automatic Generation of Intervention Effect Estimation Formula.- An Investigation of Bayes Estimation Procedures for the Two-parameter Logistic Model.- Coping Strategies as Predictors of Psychological Distress among Employees in Japan.- Estimating Mediated Effects with Survival Data.- A Backward Induction Computational Procedure to Sequential Mastery Testing.- Bayes and Generalized Bayes Tests for Tree Ordered Normal Means.- Model Selection Criteria for Growth Curve Model with Hierachical Within-Individual Design Matrices.- Pooling Component Means: Making Sense or Folly.- Geometric Perspectives of Dual Scaling for Assessment of Information in Data.- Factors which Influence Disclosure about Human Resources. An International Comparison Based on Disclosure Issued in Form 20-F and Annual Reports.- An Application of Rotation in Correspondence Analysis.- Complex Difference System Models for the Analysis of Asymmetry..- A Distance Representation of the Quasi-symmetry Model and Related Distance Models.- Two-mode Three-way Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling with Different Directions of Asymmetry for Different Sources.- A Latent Variable Model for Multidimensional Unfolding.- Monte Carlo Simulation in Three-way Unfolding: Assessing the Combined Effect of Sparseness and Variation of the Cell Frequencies.- On Thurstone’s Model for Paired Comparisons and Ranking Data.- Two Kinds of Space in Psychophysics.- A Variable Variance Model: A Critical Formulation of Fechner’s Problem.- An Application of a Multiplicative Utility for Non-commutative Joint Receipts to Portfolio Choice.- Multidimensional Scaling of Computer-generated Abstract Forms.- Time Allocation Modeling for Weekend Travel in Tokyo, Using Combined Utility Maximization and Activity Choice Approaches.- Cluster Instability as a Result of Data Input Order..- A Connectionist Model of Phonological Working Memory.- Brain Mapping Data: Classification, Principal Components and Multidimensional Scaling.- Human Decision Making Model by Boolean Approach and Fuzzy Reasoning.- A New Model of Rating Scale Method Considering Context Effects Based on Fuzzy Logic and its Application for a Psychological Response to the Acoustic Noise.- Subtype Classification of Social Anxiety in Japanese Undergraduates.- Another Aspect of Psychometrics; Survey Meta-data Description by XML.- Some Alternative Clustering Methods for Mokken Scale Analysis.- Knowledge-based Cascade-correlation: Varying the Size and Shape of Relevant Prior Knowledge.- A PCA for Interval-valued Data Based on Midpoints and Radii.- Independent Component Analysis for Non-normal Factor Analysis.- Self-Organizing Method for Robust Blind Source Separation by ?-Divergence.- Examination of Independence in Independent Component Analysis.- Neural Coding by Temporal and Spatial Correlations.- Asymptotic Distributions and Confidence Intervals of Component Loading in Principal Component Analysis.- Text Segmentation by Latent Semantic Indexing.- Contributors.- Keyword Index.