Towards a Logical Framework for Latent Variable Modelling

Abstract

Modelling in psychometrics has become increasingly reliant on computer software; at the same time, many decisions that a researcher makes remain unrecorded and perhaps, unreconciled to anything more than the researcher's intuition or best guess. The aim of this paper is to set out a logic that accounts for and guides decision procedures, in psychometric research practices. Such a logic is informed by the integration of three systematic viewpoints: