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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

The first version of the package plink has been uploaded to CRAN. plink is a package for conducting unidimensional IRT scaling and chain linking for multiple groups for single-format or mixed-format common items. The package supports eight IRT models and four calibration methods. Dichotomous Models: 1PL, 2PL, 3PL Polytomous Models: -Graded response model -Partial credit model -Generalized

The first version of the package plink has been uploaded to CRAN. plink is a package for conducting unidimensional IRT scaling and chain linking for multiple groups for single-format or mixed-format common items. The package supports eight IRT models and four calibration methods. Dichotomous Models: 1PL, 2PL, 3PL Polytomous Models: -Graded response model -Partial credit model -Generalized

An updated version of the package plink has been uploaded to CRAN. This is a major revision that now includes multidimensional models and methods. plink is a package for conducting unidimensional and multidimensional IRT-based test linking using separate calibration methods for multiple groups for single-format or mixed-format common items. The package supports sixteen IRT models and eleven

An updated version of the package plink has been uploaded to CRAN. This is a major revision that now includes multidimensional models and methods. plink is a package for conducting unidimensional and multidimensional IRT-based test linking using separate calibration methods for multiple groups for single-format or mixed-format common items. The package supports sixteen IRT models and eleven

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

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

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

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 useRs, does any of you have suggestions on how to conduct a proper DIF analysis starting from a model of class gpcm (from the wonderful package ltm by prof. Rizopoulos)? difR will handle only dichotomous items, and I have a mix of dicho- and polytomous ones (that's why I chose the partial credit model). I also found the package lordif, but I'm not really sure if that's what I

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

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

The function factor.scores is used with package ltm and others to estimate IRT type scores for various models. It inherits objects of class grm, gpcm and a few others. What I would like to do is to use the factor.scores function, but feed it my own item parameters (from a bifactor model where the 2PL parameters are adjusted for the bifactor structure). Does anybody have an idea of how this might

hello R, This is about simulation in psychomtrics in IRT in R. I want to simulate b parameters(item difficulty) with moments of fixed values of mean, st.d, skewness and kurtosis. Is there any specific IRT package in R with those functions to control those moments? I have seen other programs that can control mean and st.d but not skewness and kurtosis. Thank you, helen L [[alternative HTML

Hello, Would someone have ever heard or developed any Item Response Models library for R ? Of course, a Rasch model can be estimated through glm() but it is not the case for more complex (polytomous) response models. Similarly I would be interested in any R implementation of nonlinear multivariate analyses a la GIFI (HOMALS, PRINCALS, OVERALS). Thanks a lot in advance, Yvonnick Noel, PhD.

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]]

Hi all, Could anyone tell me if there is some package that fits any Item Response Model (further the ltm package)? Regards, Caio --------------------------------- [[alternative HTML version deleted]]