G-ANOVA VARIANCE COMPONENTS RESULTS




Examples from Artificial Continuous Formulation: Task Wobble,  Rater Smear

Scoring 1-6 scale with category boundaries 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.5 5.5
Underlying formulation Contininuous data, following development of CLBH.

Population distribution:  True scores: skew
For each individual, start with a true ability (like CLBH "true level" top p.8) which I'll call theta. For a population (or a school) theta can have various distributions:
Skew distribution on [.5. 6.5] yielding true category proportions {.25 .25 .25 .10 .10 .05} constructed with continuous Uniform between score boundaries +/- .50.
mean 2.7; variance 2.1933.

Basic rater-task misclassification. Homogeneous raters and homogeneous tasks; error facets defined by Task Wobble,Rater Smear. NO error term besides task-wobble, rater-smear.
TASK WOBBLE: N(0, var) var values {small, big} = {0.584888, 1.09667}
RATER SMEAR N(0, var) var values {best rater,...., worst rater} = {0.177696, 0.355391, 0.710782, 1.42156}

pXtXR anova variance components components given in table below

General Conclusions
Person (universe?) components:  Component for p decreases as rater smear variance increases--i.e., "universe variance" gets smaller as raters get worse. Component for p decreases as task wobble increases.
Task components:   Decreases in the quality of the task (increasing task wobble) leave t component = 0, but increase personXtask interaction.  Interaction component taskXperson is large (even for this homogenous, symmetric task misclassification); the only large component besides p and error. Also magnitude of txp decreases as rater smear increases--task by person interaction gets smaller as recorders get worse.
Rater components:  In both examples the r,pr,tr components show absolutely no sensitivity to large changes in rater acuity--all components remain 0, even for the worst raters!



Continuous Formulation Examples Based on Task-wobble, Rater Smear
pXtXr, G-anova

                                                 VARIANCE COMPONENTS RESULTS
                                             

                                 
RATER SMEAR N(0, var)                    SMALL  TASK VARIANCE               "BIG" TASK VARIANCE
                                                  N(0, .5849)                  N(0, 1.0967)                        
                                                                                                                 
                                          Source      Variance             Source      Variance         
                         W  || W                     component                        component         
                         O  || O           1 sub       1.74                 1 sub       1.58            
                         R  || R           2 tsk       0.00                 2 tsk       0.00            
var = .177696            S  || S           3 rat       0.00                 3 rat       0.00            
(g-coeff .742, .632)     E  || E           4 sub*tsk   0.421                4 sub*tsk   0.749           
                            ||             5 sub*rat   0.003                5 sub*rat   0.001           
                            \/             6 tsk*rat   0.000                6 tsk*rat   0.000           
                         R  || R           7 Error     0.206                7 Error     0.202           
                         A  || A          ------------------------------   ----------------------
                         T  || T                                   
                         E  || E          Source      Variance             Source      Variance                                                               
                         R  || R                     component                        component         
                         S  || S           1 sub       1.71                 1 sub       1.55            
var = .355391               ||             2 tsk       0.00                 2 tsk       0.00            
                            ||             3 rat       0.00                 3 rat       0.00            
                            ||             4 sub*tsk   0.403                4 sub*tsk   0.718           
                            ||             5 sub*rat   0.00                 5 sub*rat   0.001           
                            \/             6 tsk*rat   0.00                 6 tsk*rat   0.00            
                         W  || W           7 Error     0.334                7 Error     0.324           
                         O  || O          ------------------------------   ---------------------        
                         R  || R         
                         S  || S          Source      Variance             Source      Variance         
                         E  || E                     component                        component         
                            ||             1 sub       1.57                 1 sub       1.48             
                            ||             2 tsk       0.00                 2 tsk       0.00             
var = .710782            R  || R           3 rat       0.00                 3 rat       0.00             
                         A  \/ A           4 sub*tsk   0.368                4 sub*tsk   0.646            
                         T  || T           5 sub*rat   0.00                 5 sub*rat   0.00             
                         E  || E           6 tsk*rat   0.00                 6 tsk*rat   0.00             
                         R  || R           7 Error     0.577                7 Error     0.547            
                         S  || S          ------------------------------   -------------------- -        
                            \/            
                            ||            Source      Variance             Source      Variance  
                            ||                       component                        component           
                            ||             1 sub       1.399                1 sub       1.256                          
                            ||             2 tsk       0.00                 2 tsk       0.00                           
var = 1.42156               \/             3 rat       0.00                 3 rat       0.00     
                         W  || W           4 sub*tsk   0.328                4 sub*tsk   0.622    
                         O  || O           5 sub*rat   0.012                5 sub*rat   0.030    
                         R  || R           6 tsk*rat   0.00                 6 tsk*rat   0.00     
                         S  || S           7 Error     0.986                7 Error     0.931    
                         E  || E          ==============================   ----------------------