A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying the Rasch Model Using R: A Manual for the Social Sciences [Hardcover]

1. Introduction? 2. Have You Assaulted a Politician? Measuring Political Engagement Using the Simple Rasch Model? 3. Expectations and Residuals? 4. All We Need Is Love (and Money)! An Introduction to the Rating Scale Rasch Model? 5. Relaxing the Common Scale: The Partial Credit Model? 6. Observations or Subjective Interpretations? A Many-facets Rasch Model? 7. The Rasch Model as a Generalized Linear Mixed Model? 8. Publishing a Paper: Detection of Online Hate Speech

A fantastic introduction to the Rasch model from the novice to the experienced researcher with self-assessment questions, code, exercises and additional readings. Iasonas Lamprianou took on the challenging task of making accessible information that are not readily understood. His step by step approach builds upon prior knowledge and enables the reader to follow through more challenging concepts. Concepts and terms are made easy using a very gentle introductory approach for individuals with little background in mathematics and statistics. The available code enables the reader to easily apply each methodology and visualize results and obtain the necessary statistics. It is a must have for graduate students and researchers who plan on utilizing the Rasch model for scale development and evaluation. - Georgios Sideridis, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, US

This book is an extremely useful introduction to a very important but still relatively little- known approach to carrying out quantitative research in education, psychology, economics or social sciences, to name just a few areas of study. All these fields benefit from the measurement of constructs such as language proficiency, political engagement, quality of life, extroversion, or parental support that cannot be observed directly but have to be constructed from concrete indicators. Lamprianou discusses the principles and practice of buills&