Dear useRs, new and updated features in eRm 0.9-6 for extended Rasch modeling: - infit and outfit mean-square statistics added to functions personfit() and itemfit(). - new method: plotPImap() plots a person-item map (cf. Bond & Fox, 2007), i.e., a map of locations of item (and threshold) parameters, and the distribution of person parameters. - new options in plotGOF(): 'conf': draws confidence ellipses for item parameters, optionally single items can be chosen interactively. 'ctrline': draws confidence bands along the diagonal line based on the se's of the item parameters (cf. Wright & Stone, 1999) . plotGOF() now displays difficulty parameters (see below). - unification of output for item parameter estimates: all plotting functions and the function thresholds() display item difficulty parameters. all numeric output (i.e. from model objects) gives item easiness parameters. - new and enhanced options in plotICC(): 'empirical': empirical ICCs can now be smoothed using various smoothers (such as Tukey, loess, or kernel). 'ask': interactive turning over of plots can be switched off (only useful if automated figure export is in effect, e.g., when using Sweave). - simulation module for 0-1 response matrices: sim.rasch() for Rasch homogeneous data, sim.2pl() for 2-PL data, sim.xdim() for unidimensionality violation, and sim.locdep() for locally dependent item responses. - package vignette "eRmvig" added. Best, Patrick _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages