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Parameter Estimation for the Thurstone Case III Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

David B. Mackay  and
Seoil Chaiy
David B. Mackay*
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Seoil Chaiy
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
*
Requests for reprints should be sent to David B. MacKay, Graduate School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405.
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Abstract

A Monte Carlo study was conducted to investigate the ability of three estimation criteria to recover the parameters of Case V and Case III models from comparative judgment data. Significant differences in recovery are shown to exist.

Keywords

paired comparisonsscalingThurstone Case III

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Psychometrika , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , September 1982 , pp. 353 - 359
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Copyright © 1982 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

This research was supported by grant SOC76-20517 from the National Science Foundation. The authors acknowledge with appreciation comments received on an earlier draft by Harold Lindman, Joseph Zinnes, and anonymous reviewers.

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