QVM (version 0.1.1)

QVM: Questionnaires Validation Module

Description

This package does a multivariate analysis for questionnaire validation with Likert-type scale variables.

You can learn more about this package at: http://www.uv.mx/personal/nehuerta/qvm/

Usage

QVM()

Value

QVM is an interface

Details

Introduce a data set of categorical information and classifed as numerical data. Choose a data set (delimited csv for comma). This funtion takes a data set and applies questionnaire validatioin techniques to return parameter estimates.

References

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Baker, F. (2004). Item Response Theory: Parameter Estimation Techniques, Second Edition. CRC Press.

Cronbach, L. (1951). Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests. Psychomerika, 16, 297–334.

Gil Pascual, J. A. (2015). Metodología cuantitativa en educación. UNED

Juniper, E. F., Guyatt, G. H., Streiner, D. L., & King, D. R. (1997). Clinical impact versus factor analysis for quality of life questionnaire construction. Journal of ClinicalEpidemiology, 233-238.

Likert, R. (1932). A Technique for the Measurement of Attitudes. Archives of Psychology, 140, 1–55.

Martínez Arias, M. R., Hernández Lloreda, M. V., & Hernández Lloreda, M. J. (2014). Psicometría. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.

Ponsoda, V., Revuelta, J. & Abad, F. J. (2006). Modelos politómicos de respuesta al ítem. Madrid: La Muralla.

Rizopoulos, D. (2006). ltm: An R package for Latent Variable Modelling and Item Response Theory Analyses, Journal of Statistical Software, 17 (5), 1-25. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v17/i05/

Stevens, S. S. (1946). On the Theory of Scales of Measurement. Science, 677-680.

Examples

## Not run: 
# ##Call to library
# library(QVM)
# ##Call the package
# QVM()
# ## End(Not run)