Location
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
Event Website
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Start Date
3-1-2024 12:00 AM
End Date
6-1-2024 12:00 AM
Description
Psychometric health care focuses on the development and improvement of psychotherapeutic measures. Adequate psychological profiling and advanced statistical evaluation are fundamental to assessing the efficacy and measure-associated benefits. Consider psychological constructs operationalized as means or sums of item response values of bipolar Likert scales. Using estimates of the effect size and statistical tests the relevance of a psychotherapeutic measure can be assessed, e.g., via the computation of (partial) correlations of different constructs. Many statistical procedures depend on approximate normal distribution, e.g., t-tests, linear regression and partial least squares path modeling. Increasing the degree of approximate normality of means and sums of item responses enhances the quality of statistical evaluations. Via simulation we provide evidence that applying the isometric log-ratio (ilr) transformation to bipolar Likert scales data prior to the computation of item response means or sums increases the degree of approximate normality. That is, a shift towards normality is observed enhancing the quality of subsequent statistical analyses. As a result, the quality of statistical evaluations enhances. The reliability of psychological diagnostics increases and the development of psychometric scales can be improved enhancing patient welfare. Moreover, reliability and significance affect grant funding in health economics.
Recommended Citation
Lehmann, Rene and Vogt, Bodo, "Increasing normal approximation in psychometric health care data analyses using a compositional data approach" (2024). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2024 (HICSS-57). 7.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-57/da/service_analytics/7
Increasing normal approximation in psychometric health care data analyses using a compositional data approach
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
Psychometric health care focuses on the development and improvement of psychotherapeutic measures. Adequate psychological profiling and advanced statistical evaluation are fundamental to assessing the efficacy and measure-associated benefits. Consider psychological constructs operationalized as means or sums of item response values of bipolar Likert scales. Using estimates of the effect size and statistical tests the relevance of a psychotherapeutic measure can be assessed, e.g., via the computation of (partial) correlations of different constructs. Many statistical procedures depend on approximate normal distribution, e.g., t-tests, linear regression and partial least squares path modeling. Increasing the degree of approximate normality of means and sums of item responses enhances the quality of statistical evaluations. Via simulation we provide evidence that applying the isometric log-ratio (ilr) transformation to bipolar Likert scales data prior to the computation of item response means or sums increases the degree of approximate normality. That is, a shift towards normality is observed enhancing the quality of subsequent statistical analyses. As a result, the quality of statistical evaluations enhances. The reliability of psychological diagnostics increases and the development of psychometric scales can be improved enhancing patient welfare. Moreover, reliability and significance affect grant funding in health economics.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-57/da/service_analytics/7