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Fast estimation of generalized linear latent variable models for performance and process data with ordinal, continuous, and count observed variables.
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 2024 Februrary 13
Different data types often occur in psychological and educational measurement such as computer-based assessments that record performance and process data (e.g., response times and the number of actions). Modelling such data requires specific models for each data type and accommodating complex dependencies between multiple variables. Generalized linear latent variable models are suitable for modelling mixed data simultaneously, but estimation can be computationally demanding. A fast solution is to use Laplace approximations, but existing implementations of joint modelling of mixed data types are limited to ordinal and continuous data. To address this limitation, we derive an efficient estimation method that uses first- or second-order Laplace approximations to simultaneously model ordinal data, continuous data, and count data. We illustrate the approach with an example and conduct simulations to evaluate the performance of the method in terms of estimation efficiency, convergence, and parameter recovery. The results suggest that the second-order Laplace approximation achieves a higher convergence rate and produces accurate yet fast parameter estimates compared to the first-order Laplace approximation, while the time cost increases with higher model complexity. Additionally, models that consider the dependence of variables from the same stimulus fit the empirical data substantially better than models that disregarded the dependence.
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