Table 1 Reliability of the Expected-A-Posteriori estimates and Deviance Information Criterion values associated with the four Bayesian MLIRT models (n = 14,755).

From: Socio-economic status and trajectories of a novel multidimensional metric of Active and Healthy Ageing: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

Model

EAP reliability

DIC value

(1) No intercept variance, no slopes

0.892

1,368,772

(2) Itemwise intercept variance, no slopes

0.912

1,323,489

(3) Homogeneous intercept variance, no slopes

0.903

1,323,538

(4) Intercept variance and slope variances (hierarchical item and slope parameters)

0.925

1,198,613

  1. EAP Expected-A-Posteriori, DIC Deviance Information Criterion.
  2. Bold denotes the highest EAP reliability and the lowest DIC value.
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