lme4 (version 1.1-7)

VerbAgg: Verbal Aggression item responses

Description

These are the item responses to a questionaire on verbal aggression. These data are used throughout De Boeck and Wilson, Explanatory Item Response Models (Springer, 2004) to illustrate various forms of item response models.

source

http://bear.soe.berkeley.edu/EIRM/

References

De Boeck and Wilson (2004), Explanatory Item Response Models, Springer.

Examples

str(VerbAgg)
## Show how  r2 := h(resp) is defined:
with(VerbAgg, stopifnot( identical(r2, {
     r <- factor(resp, ordered=FALSE); levels(r) <- c("N","Y","Y"); r})))

xtabs(~ item + resp, VerbAgg)
xtabs(~ btype + resp, VerbAgg)
round(100 * ftable(prop.table(xtabs(~ situ + mode + resp, VerbAgg), 1:2), 1))
person <- unique(subset(VerbAgg, select = c(id, Gender, Anger)))
require(lattice)
densityplot(~ Anger, person, groups = Gender, auto.key = list(columns = 2),
            xlab = "Trait Anger score (STAXI)")

if(lme4:::testLevel() >= 3) { ## takes about 15 sec
print(fmVA <- glmer(r2 ~ (Anger + Gender + btype + situ)^2 +
 		   (1|id) + (1|item), family = binomial, data =
		   VerbAgg), corr=FALSE)
}
                       ## much faster but less accurate
print(fmVA0 <- glmer(r2 ~ (Anger + Gender + btype + situ)^2 +
                    (1|id) + (1|item), family = binomial, data =
                    VerbAgg, nAGQ=0L), corr=FALSE)