Item Stability Statistics from bootEGA — itemStability • EGAnet

Based on the bootEGA results, this function computes and plots the number of times an variable is estimated in the same dimension as originally estimated by an empirical EGA structure or a theoretical/input structure. The output also contains each variable's replication frequency (i.e., proportion of bootstraps that a variable appeared in each dimension

Usage

itemStability(bootega.obj, IS.plot = TRUE, structure = NULL, ...)

Arguments

bootega.obj: A bootEGA object
IS.plot: Boolean (length = 1). Should the plot be produced for item.replication? Defaults to TRUE
structure: Numeric (length = number of variables). A theoretical or pre-defined structure. Defaults to NULL or the empirical EGA result in the bootega.obj
...: Deprecated arguments from previous versions of itemStability

Value

Returns a list containing:

membership

A list containing:

empirical — A vector of the empirical memberships from the empirical EGA result
bootstrap — A matrix of the homogenized memberships from the replicate samples in the bootEGA results
structure — A vector of the structure used in the analysis. If structure = NULL, then this output will be the same as empirical

item.stability

A list containing:

empirical.dimensions — A vector of the proportion of times each item replicated within the structure defined by structure
all.dimensions — A matrix of the proportion of times each item replicated in each of the structure defined dimensions

plot

Plot output if IS.plot = TRUE

References

Original implementation of bootEGA
Christensen, A. P., & Golino, H. (2021). Estimating the stability of the number of factors via Bootstrap Exploratory Graph Analysis: A tutorial. Psych, 3(3), 479-500.

Conceptual introduction
Christensen, A. P., Golino, H., & Silvia, P. J. (2020). A psychometric network perspective on the validity and validation of personality trait questionnaires. European Journal of Personality, 34(6), 1095-1108.

Author

Hudson Golino <hfg9s at virginia.edu> and Alexander P. Christensen <alexpaulchristensen@gmail.com>

Examples

# Load data
wmt <- wmt2[,7:24]

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Standard EGA example
boot.wmt <- bootEGA(
  data = wmt, iter = 500,
  type = "parametric", ncores = 2
)} # }

# Standard item stability
wmt.is <- itemStability(boot.wmt)


if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# EGA fit example
boot.wmt.fit <- bootEGA(
  data = wmt, iter = 500,
  EGA.type = "EGA.fit",
  type = "parametric", ncores = 2
)

# EGA fit item stability
wmt.is.fit <- itemStability(boot.wmt.fit)

# Hierarchical EGA example
boot.wmt.hier <- bootEGA(
  data = wmt, iter = 500,
  EGA.type = "hierEGA",
  type = "parametric", ncores = 2
)

# Hierarchical EGA item stability
wmt.is.hier <- itemStability(boot.wmt.hier)

# Random-intercept EGA example
boot.wmt.ri <- bootEGA(
  data = wmt, iter = 500,
  EGA.type = "riEGA",
  type = "parametric", ncores = 2
)

# Random-intercept EGA item stability
wmt.is.ri <- itemStability(boot.wmt.ri)} # }

Item Stability Statistics from `bootEGA`