Test-specific and Item-specific Entropy for Latent Class Models

Computes test-specific and item-specific entropy as test-diagnostic criteria of cognitive diagnostic models (Asparouhov & Muthen, 2014).

entropy.lca(object)

# S3 method for entropy.lca
summary(object, digits=2,  ...)

Arguments

object

Object of class din, gdina or mcdina. For the summary method, it is the result of entropy.lca.

digits

Number of digits to round

...

Further arguments to be passed

Value

A list with the data frame entropy as an entry.

References

Asparouhov, T. & Muthen, B. (2014). Variable-specific entropy contribution. Technical Appendix. http://www.statmodel.com/7_3_papers.shtml

See also

See cdi.kli for test diagnostic indices based on the Kullback-Leibler information and cdm.est.class.accuracy for calculating the classification accuracy.

Examples

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# EXAMPLE 1: Entropy for DINA model
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data(sim.dina, package="CDM")
data(sim.qmatrix, package="CDM")

# fit DINA Model
mod1 <- CDM::din( sim.dina, q.matrix=sim.qmatrix, rule="DINA")
summary(mod1)
# compute entropy for test and items
emod1 <- CDM::entropy.lca( mod1 )
summary(emod1)

if (FALSE) {
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# EXAMPLE 2: Entropy for polytomous GDINA model
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data(data.pgdina, package="CDM")

dat <- data.pgdina$dat
q.matrix <- data.pgdina$q.matrix

# pGDINA model with "DINA rule"
mod1 <- CDM::gdina( dat, q.matrix=q.matrix, rule="DINA")
summary(mod1)

# compute entropy
emod1 <- CDM::entropy.lca( mod1 )
summary(emod1)

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# EXAMPLE 3: Entropy for MCDINA model
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data(data.cdm02, package="CDM")

dat <- data.cdm02$data
q.matrix <- data.cdm02$q.matrix

# estimate model with polytomous atribute
mod1 <- CDM::mcdina( dat, q.matrix=q.matrix )
summary(mod1)
# computre entropy
emod1 <- CDM::entropy.lca( mod1 )
summary(emod1)
}