similar to: Package for Miscellaneous Psychometrics

I have just submitted MiscPsycho to CRAN. MiscPsycho contains functions for miscellaneous psychometrics that may be useful for applied psychometricians. MML estimation already exists in the ltm package. Hence, a jml option is provided for users who prefer this method. The jml function gives back rasch difficulties and the same Infit and Outfit statistics as Winsteps. Also, jml is known to return

I have just submitted MiscPsycho to CRAN. MiscPsycho contains functions for miscellaneous psychometrics that may be useful for applied psychometricians. MML estimation already exists in the ltm package. Hence, a jml option is provided for users who prefer this method. The jml function gives back rasch difficulties and the same Infit and Outfit statistics as Winsteps. Also, jml is known to return

In the near future I will release MiscPsycho, a package that contains various functions useful for applied psychometricians. I would like to include some data sets for distribution in the package, but have not created any of these on my own, but have used data distributed in other packages such as the LSAT data in the ltm package. Is it appropriate for me to distribute a data set in the package I

Version 1.1 of the MiscPsycho package had been uploaded to CRAN. The package has been updated to include the following: 1) The irt.ability() function that estimates examinee ability given a set of item parameters. The function is very general and can be used to estimate ability when there are only dichotomous items (1-, 2-, or 3PL), only polytomous items (generalized partial credit model), or a

Version 1.1 of the MiscPsycho package had been uploaded to CRAN. The package has been updated to include the following: 1) The irt.ability() function that estimates examinee ability given a set of item parameters. The function is very general and can be used to estimate ability when there are only dichotomous items (1-, 2-, or 3PL), only polytomous items (generalized partial credit model), or a

Hi, What package would you recommend for analyzing the validity/reliability of multiple choice tests. Doing things such as classical test analysis, factor analysis, item response theory. I've used psychometric (item.exam), MiscPsycho (alpha.Summary), and ltm (rcor.test). MiscPsycho reported the numbers most similar to what I get in SPSS: corrected point biserial correlations,

I'm finalizing development of a package that will include a vignette. Without the vignette, the package builds fine with no warnings and is ready for distribution. Now, I am following the directions for developing vignettes "Sweave, Part II: Package Vignettes" by Friedrich Leisch. I am using a windows XP machine (other session info below). Here is what I have done. 1) I add the

Over the last couple of years I have written quite a few R programs for various "psychometric" techniques, and I am regularly updating and expanding what is there. I now have (wholly or partially), or have planned -- gifi package (update to homals on CRAN). Code for multiple correspondence analysis, nonlinear principal component analysis, nonlinear multiset canonical

Hello R, I am looking for non-parametric simulation in IRT. Is there any IRT package that does non-parametric simulation? helen L [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

A revised version of the MiscPsycho package has been uploaded to CRAN. The fixes include: 1) A bug found in the class.acc() function that resulted in overflow errors when computing probabilities associated with polytomously scored items has been resolved. The function now integrates over the posterior distribution of an IRT model for dichotomously scored items, polytomously scored items, or a

An updated version of the Miscellaneous Psychometrics package has been updated to CRAN. The following updates are included in the package: 1) An implementation of the Stocking-Lord procedure for linking test scales. 2) An implementation of the Levenshtein algorithm for comparing character strings 3) stringProbs, a function for computing the probability of a given Levenshtein Distance 4) Three

I have the following function for which I need to find the root of a: f <- function(R,a,c,q) sum((1 - (1-R)^a)^(1/a)) - c * q To give context for the problem, this is a psychometric issue where R is a vector denoting the percentage of students scoring correct on test item i in class j, c is the proportion correct on the test by student k, and q is the number of items on the test in total. I

Dear R-Listers, to measure the psychometric curve of pitch discrimination, one sequentially presents two tones of slightly different pitch to an observer (animal will do), and asks "which is higher". The pschometric curve is the fraction of correct responses plotted against the pitch difference. It passes through 50% (pure guessing) at zero and normally approaches 100% at large

By the end of the day I will have a vignette completed for MiscPsycho. This vignette lays out the mathematical details for the primary functions in the package and provides substantive examples on how to use these functions in a sample session. This vignette will ultimately end up being distributed with the package itself. However, I plan to build new versions slowly. So, if you would like a copy

I have constructed the following functions and need a little clarification: ### function to fit the model parameters jml.fit <- function(dat, con = 1e-3, bias=FALSE, ...){ do stuff ... } ### default function which calls jml.fit jml.default <- function(dat, con = 1e-3, bias=FALSE, ...){ result <- jml.fit(dat, con = 1e-3, bias) result$call <- match.call() class(result) <-

Dear list: I'm hoping to tap in to the statistical expertise in the group, especially those familiar with simulation techniques. I'm finalizing a study where I obtain standard errors from two sources. The first source is a monte carlo simulation and the other source is an analytical model I have developed that appears to recover the standard errors from the simulation. All analysis are

Dear Professor Revelle and R-helpers, This is a two-part question: the first part is general, and the second is specific to the psych package. First question: In the past I've constructed composite variables from questionnaire data by using rowMeans(), and then correlating items with the scale using cor() as an informal check for "bad" items. Over the weekend I decided to take a

I've defined the following for objects of a class called jml summary.jml <- function(object, ...){ tab <- cbind(Estimate = coef(object), StdError = object$se, Infit = object$Infit, Outfit = object$Outfit) res <- list(call = object$call, coefficients = tab, N = nrow(object$Data), iter = object$Iterations) class(res) <- "summary.jml" res }

I've been building, checking, and installing a package all day today with no errors. I have even been able to bring the package into R on my machine and use it all day doing test runs. However, now, when I run Rcmd check, I get errors. Keep in mind not one thing has changed. I haven't touched any of the functions or .Rd files, yet I get the error below at this point and the package cannot

Hi, I want to fit some psychophysical data with cumulative gaussians. There is quite a convenient toolbox for matlab called 'psignifit' (formerly known as 'psychofit'). It allows the lower bound of the sigmoid to vary slightly from zero, aswell as the upper bound to vary from one. with these two free parameters, the fitted function is less sensitive to noisy data and outliers.