Latent Variable Theory

By Denny Borsboom. 2008

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science

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Citations in the corpus

Dimensions of Normal Personality as Networks in Search of Equilibrium: You Can't like Parties if you Don't like People (2012, methodology): “…but we do object to a latent variable ‘theory’ in which the measurement model with a common cause structure is interpreted as evidence for latent causal entities that operate in the minds of individuals, causing all sorts of cognitive, affective and behavioural patterns (see also Borsboom, 2008b).”
Confirmatory composite analysis using partial least squares: setting the record straight (2020, background): “While latent variables cannot be inferred with certainty from the data (Borsboom 2008), emergent variables, also referred to as composites, are composed of their observable variables and thus are fully determined by them.”
Assessment and learning: fields apart? (2017, background): “Perhaps the relationship between attainment and assessment scores is non-linear and far more complex than its treatment recognises (Borsboom, 2008; Cronbach & Meehl, 1955).”
The Fallacy of Formative Measurement (2011, background): “As noted earlier, reported income can contain measurement error, such that the scores obtained by the researcher are imperfect representations of income actually earned (Borsboom, 2008; Edwards & Bagozzi, 2000).”
Network analysis: an integrative approach to the structure of psychopathology. (2013, background): “Thus, rather than interpreting symptoms as measurements of a latent disorder (as is depicted in Figure 1; see Table 1 for the accompanying legend), symptoms are viewed as part of a causal system (Borsboom 2008a).”
Teamwork quality and project success in software development: A survey of agile development teams (2016, background): “A purely data-analytic distinction is whether a variable is observed or latent ( Borsboom, 2008 ).”
Educational Measurement (4th ed.) (2009, background): “) can sustain such interpretations, as overall summaries of performance are post-hoc constructions of the researcher that one assumes are causally inert with respect to the processes that lead to item responses ( Borsboom, 2008 ; Borsboom, Mellenbergh, & Van Heerden, 2003 , 2004 ).”