The dataMedical
dataset consists of the responses of 2,392
subjects (750 males, 1,633 females and 9 subjects without gender
specification) to admission test to a medical school. It contains 100
items. A correct answer is coded as "1"
and incorrect answer as "0"
.
Missing answers were evaluated as incorrect, i.e. "0"
.
data(dataMedical)
A dataMedical
is a data.frame
consisting of 2,392 observations on
the following 102 variables.
The first 100 columns represent dichotomously scored items of the test.
Variable describing gender; values "0"
and "1"
refer to
males and females.
Criterion variable; value "1"
means that student
studies standardly, "0"
otherwise (e.g., leaving or interrupting studies).
Stuka, C., Vejrazka, M., Martinkova, P., Komenda, M., & Stepanek, L. (2016). The use of test and item analysis for improvement of tests. Workshop held at conference MEFANET, 2016, Brno, Czech Republic.