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dexter (version 1.6.2)

dexter-package: Dexter: data analyses for educational and psychological tests.

Description

Dexter provides a comprehensive solution for managing and analyzing educational test data.

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Author

Maintainer: Jesse Koops jesse.koops@cito.nl

Authors:

  • Gunter Maris

  • Timo Bechger

  • Ivailo Partchev

Details

The main features are:

  • project databases providing a structure for storing data about persons, items, responses and booklets.

  • methods to assess data quality using Classical test theory and plots.

  • CML calibration of the extended nominal response model and interaction model.

To learn more about dexter, start with the vignettes: `browseVignettes(package="dexter")`

Dexter uses the following global options

  • `dexter.use_tibble` return tibbles instead of data.frames, defaults to FALSE

  • `dexter.progress` show progress bars, defaults to TRUE in interactive sessions

  • `dexter.max_cores` set a maximum number of cores that dexter will use, defaults to the minimum of `Sys.getenv("OMP_THREAD_LIMIT")` and `getOption("Ncpus")`, otherwise unlimited.

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