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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

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of the new version of package `ltm' (i.e., ltm_0.8-0 soon available from CRAN) for Item Response Theory analyses. This package provides a flexible framework for analyzing dichotomous and polytomous data under IRT, including the Rasch model, the Two-Parameter Logistic model, Birnbaum's Three-Parameter model, the Latent Trait model

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of the new version of package `ltm' (i.e., ltm_0.8-0 soon available from CRAN) for Item Response Theory analyses. This package provides a flexible framework for analyzing dichotomous and polytomous data under IRT, including the Rasch model, the Two-Parameter Logistic model, Birnbaum's Three-Parameter model, the Latent Trait model

Dear all, I'm working on ability estimates using Rasch model. Using the "ltm" package, the procedure is quite simple: ## Factor Scores for the Rasch model fit <- rasch(LSAT) factor.scores(fit) What about Partial Credit Model (PCM)? For PCM I use PCM function from eRm package. Is there any similar function like factor.scores to estimate ability scores using PCM model? Best,

Dear R users, I'd like to announce the new version of the package "ltm" (available from CRAN), for fitting Latent Trait Models (including the Rasch and two-parameter logistic models) under the Item Response Theory approach. Three main extra features have been added: (i) now both ltm() and rasch() permit general fixed-value constraints (e.g., useful for scaling purposes), (ii)

Dear R users, I'd like to announce the new version of the package "ltm" (available from CRAN), for fitting Latent Trait Models (including the Rasch and two-parameter logistic models) under the Item Response Theory approach. Three main extra features have been added: (i) now both ltm() and rasch() permit general fixed-value constraints (e.g., useful for scaling purposes), (ii)

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of the new version of package 'ltm' (i.e., ltm_0.9-0 soon available from CRAN) for Item Response Theory analyses. This package provides a flexible framework for analyzing dichotomous and polytomous data under various IRT models. Furthermore, supporting functions for descriptive statistics, goodness-of-fit, ability estimation and

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the release of the new version of package 'ltm' (i.e., ltm_0.9-0 soon available from CRAN) for Item Response Theory analyses. This package provides a flexible framework for analyzing dichotomous and polytomous data under various IRT models. Furthermore, supporting functions for descriptive statistics, goodness-of-fit, ability estimation and

Afternoon R help, I want to run Rasch/IRT analyses using the ltm package, however, I am using large scale survey data which requires weighting for accurate results. I attempted to create a weighted object to insert into the formulae of the ltm packages, however, the survey data only includes 30 replicate weights and a sampling weight. The svrepdesign requires additional information such as

Dear R-List, to assess the model fit for 2PL-models, I tried to mimic the bootstrap-approach chosen in the GoF.rasch()-function. Not being a statistician, I was wondering whether the following simplification (omit the "chi-squared-expressed model fit-step") would be appropriate: GoF.ltm <- function(object, B = 50, ...){ liFits <- list() for(i in 1:B){ rndDat <-

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

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the new version of package 'ltm' for Item Response Theory analysis. The function grm() (along with supporting methods, i.e., anova, margins, factor.scores, etc.) has been added for fitting the Graded Response Model for ordinal polytomous manifest variables. An extra feature of the plot method for classes 'grm', 'ltm' and

Dear R-users, I'd like to announce the new version of package 'ltm' for Item Response Theory analysis. The function grm() (along with supporting methods, i.e., anova, margins, factor.scores, etc.) has been added for fitting the Graded Response Model for ordinal polytomous manifest variables. An extra feature of the plot method for classes 'grm', 'ltm' and

I have constructed the function mml2 (below) based on the likelihood function described in the minimal latex I have pasted below for anyone who wants to look at it. This function finds parameter estimates for a basic Rasch (IRT) model. Using the function without the gradient, using either nlminb or optim returns the correct parameter estimates and, in the case of optim, the correct standard

Hello All, I was wondering how I can get the overall Pearson chi^2 test of model fit with its df and p value in the LTM package for the 2PL models. Thanks, -- Davood Tofighi Department of Psychology Arizona State University [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

This is a very basic question, but I am a bit confused with optim. I want to get the MLEs using optim which could replace the newton-raphson code I have below which also gives the MLEs. The function takes as input a vector x denoting whether a respondent answered an item correctly (x=1) or not (x=0). It also takes as input a vector b_vector, and these are parameters of test items (Rasch estimates

I am writing a small function to approximate an integral that cannot be evaluated in closed form. I am partially successful at this point and am experiencing one small, albeit important problem. Here is part of my function below. This is a psychometric problem for dichotomously scored test items where x is a vector of 1s or 0s denoting whether the respondent answered the item correctly (1) or

Dear List I apologize for the multiple postings. After being in the weeds on this problem for a while I think my original post may have been a little cryptic. I think I can be clearer. Essentially, I need the following a <- c(2,3) b <- c(4,5,6) (2*4) + (2*5) + (2*6) + (3*4) + (3*5) +(3*6) But I do not know of a built in function that would do this. Any suggestions? -----Original

I have the following item response theory (IRT) likelihood that I want to maximize w.r.t. to theta (student ability). L(\theta) = \prod(p(x)) Where p(x) is the 3-parameter logistic model when items are scored dichotomously (x_{ij} = 0 or 1) and p(x) is Muraki's generalized partial credit model when items are scored polytomously (x_{ij} = 0 \ldots J). Now, I wrote the following two functions