From the course: R Essential Training Part 2: Modeling Data
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Conducting an item analysis
From the course: R Essential Training Part 2: Modeling Data
Conducting an item analysis
- [Instructor] Principal components analysis and factor analysis can give you an idea of how you could combine your data to get larger factor scores, which help cancel out some of the extraneous noise in your data. But sometimes you need to get a closer look at the things that you're thinking of putting back together and item analysis can help you with that. Now to do this, I'm going to be loading a few packages including GPArotation and psych. And I'm going to be using the big5 or b5 dataset again. This is about 20,000 observations of people responding on a one to five agreement scale on 50 different variables which are designed to fall into 10 different groups, measuring large personality factors, their extroversion and agreeableness and neuroticism and openness to experience and conscientiousness and we want to see how well we can combine these or whether there's any refining that's necessary. Now to do this, I'm going to…
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Computing frequencies4m 54s
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Computing descriptive statistics9m 42s
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Computing correlations6m 32s
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Creating contingency tables5m 35s
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Conducting a principal component analysis13m
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Conducting an item analysis17m 23s
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Conducting a confirmatory factor analysis5m 50s
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