Item Response Analysis Algorithm

An Item Response Analysis Algorithm is an analysis algorithm to can be applied by an Item Response Analysis System (to solve an item response analysis task).

• AKA: IRT Models.
• Context:
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• See: Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation, High-Stakes Test, Test-Level Model, Linear Fixed-Effect Model, Linear Mixed-Effect Model.

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References

2007

• (Johnson, 2007) ⇒ Matthew S. Johnson. (2007). “Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Item Response Models in R.” In: Journal of Statistical Software, 20(10).

1981

• (Bock & Aitkin, 1981) ⇒ R. Darrell Bock, and Murray Aitkin. (1981). “Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Item Parameters: Application of an EM algorithm.” In: Psychometrika, 46(4).

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