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Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two methods of detecting differential item functioning (DIF) in the presence of multilevel data and polytomously scored items. The assessment of DIF with multilevel data (e.g., patients nested within hospitals, hospitals nest...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7571901 |
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author | Sharafi, Zahra Mousavi, Amin Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Jafari, Peyman |
author_facet | Sharafi, Zahra Mousavi, Amin Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Jafari, Peyman |
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description | BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two methods of detecting differential item functioning (DIF) in the presence of multilevel data and polytomously scored items. The assessment of DIF with multilevel data (e.g., patients nested within hospitals, hospitals nested within districts) from large-scale assessment programs has received considerable attention but very few studies evaluated the effect of hierarchical structure of data on DIF detection for polytomously scored items. METHODS: The ordinal logistic regression (OLR) and hierarchical ordinal logistic regression (HOLR) were utilized to assess DIF in simulated and real multilevel polytomous data. Six factors (DIF magnitude, grouping variable, intraclass correlation coefficient, number of clusters, number of participants per cluster, and item discrimination parameter) with a fully crossed design were considered in the simulation study. Furthermore, data of Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) 4.0 collected from 576 healthy school children were analyzed. RESULTS: Overall, results indicate that both methods performed equivalently in terms of controlling Type I error and detection power rates. CONCLUSIONS: The current study showed negligible difference between OLR and HOLR in detecting DIF with polytomously scored items in a hierarchical structure. Implications and considerations while analyzing real data were also discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-56136302018-01-08 Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data Sharafi, Zahra Mousavi, Amin Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Jafari, Peyman Comput Math Methods Med Research Article BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two methods of detecting differential item functioning (DIF) in the presence of multilevel data and polytomously scored items. The assessment of DIF with multilevel data (e.g., patients nested within hospitals, hospitals nested within districts) from large-scale assessment programs has received considerable attention but very few studies evaluated the effect of hierarchical structure of data on DIF detection for polytomously scored items. METHODS: The ordinal logistic regression (OLR) and hierarchical ordinal logistic regression (HOLR) were utilized to assess DIF in simulated and real multilevel polytomous data. Six factors (DIF magnitude, grouping variable, intraclass correlation coefficient, number of clusters, number of participants per cluster, and item discrimination parameter) with a fully crossed design were considered in the simulation study. Furthermore, data of Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) 4.0 collected from 576 healthy school children were analyzed. RESULTS: Overall, results indicate that both methods performed equivalently in terms of controlling Type I error and detection power rates. CONCLUSIONS: The current study showed negligible difference between OLR and HOLR in detecting DIF with polytomously scored items in a hierarchical structure. Implications and considerations while analyzing real data were also discussed. Hindawi 2017 2017-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5613630/ /pubmed/29312463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7571901 Text en Copyright © 2017 Zahra Sharafi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sharafi, Zahra Mousavi, Amin Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Jafari, Peyman Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data |
title | Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data |
title_full | Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data |
title_fullStr | Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data |
title_short | Assessment of Differential Item Functioning in Health-Related Outcomes: A Simulation and Empirical Analysis with Hierarchical Polytomous Data |
title_sort | assessment of differential item functioning in health-related outcomes: a simulation and empirical analysis with hierarchical polytomous data |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5613630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7571901 |
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