Asymmetric Triangulation Scaling A Multidimensional Scaling for 非对称三角剖分尺度多维标度.pptVIP

Because ATRISCAL is a visualization method, there are almost no other choices besides 3 for the number of dimensions. Also the coordinate of the n+1th imaginary item in 3D space is set as (0, 0, 1). Furthermore, to avoid spatial indeterminacy, we have to fix several coordinates. First the x-coordinate of the item (which we call item k) with the lowest correct response rate is set as 0, and the y-coordinate is set to be positive. Next, we set the x-coordinate of an item (which we call item l) as positive. Item l has following conditions: It is an item whose correct response rate given that item k is correctly answered is a moderate value. * Now, I’d like to introduce Exametrika, a software for ATRISCAL analysis. Besides ATRISCAL, Exametrika can also carry out item response theory and latent rank theory. ? (Explanation of software operation) First, you’ll need to download the software to a suitable place on your computer. Then start it up by double-clicking the icon, and you should see a screen like this. Drag and drop the Excel file you want to analyze into this form. The software will then recognize the data file. ?You will then be asked which sheet of the Excel file you want to analyze. When you’ve done that, you should reach this screen where you can specify the starting point of the data, the item label line, and the ID column. Then select the items you want to analyze from the right side of the screen. Click this button to go back to the first form. ?Next, open the ATRISCAL tab. There are several analysis options. We’ll click the Analysis button. Exametrika carries out estimation in a two stages. The first stage uses genetic algorithm. The second stage uses the steepest descent method. ATRISCAL’s stress function is very complicated and its optimization easily falls into local minima, so it takes its time. * Let’s go back to the presentation slides while software works. ATRISCAL estimates the coordinates of each item as represented by the red dots in the figure.