Performs bivariate composite likelihood and full information maximum likelihood estimation for polytomous logit-normit (graded logistic) item response theory (IRT) models.
Some code from the ltm package (version 0.9-7) was modified for counting the frequency of response patterns.
Carl Falk cffalk@gmail.com, Harry Joe
Maintainer: Carl F. Falk cffalk@gmail.com
| Package: | pln |
| Type: | Package |
| Version: | 0.2-2 |
| Date: | 2020-07-28 |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| LazyLoad: | yes |
This package currently contains several functions performing estimation of unidimensional (single latent trait) polytomous logit-normit models (also known graded logistic) using bivariate composite likelihood and full information maximum likelihood estimation.
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