mirt (version 1.42)

LSAT6: Description of LSAT6 data

Description

Data from Thissen (1982); contains 5 dichotomously scored items obtained from the Law School Admissions Test, section 6.

Author

Phil Chalmers

References

Thissen, D. (1982). Marginal maximum likelihood estimation for the one-parameter logistic model. Psychometrika, 47, 175-186.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
dat <- expand.table(LSAT6)
head(dat)
itemstats(dat)

model <- 'F = 1-5
         CONSTRAIN = (1-5, a1)'
(mod <- mirt(dat, model))
M2(mod)
itemfit(mod)
coef(mod, simplify=TRUE)

# equivalentely, but with a different parameterization
mod2 <- mirt(dat, 1, itemtype = 'Rasch')
anova(mod, mod2) #equal
M2(mod2)
itemfit(mod2)
coef(mod2, simplify=TRUE)
sqrt(coef(mod2)$GroupPars[2]) #latent SD equal to the slope in mod

}