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ltm (version 0.8-9)

ltm-package: Latent Trait Models for Item Response Theory Analyses

Description

This package provides a flexible framework for Item Response Theory analyses for dichotomous and polytomous data under a Marginal Maximum Likelihood approach. The fitting algorithms provide valid inferences under Missing At Random missing data mechanisms.

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Details

ll{ Package: ltm Type: Package Version: 0.8-9 Date: 2009-01-08 License: GPL } The following features are available: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object] More information as well as .R files containing sample analyses can be found in the Rwiki page of package ltm available at: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=packages:cran:ltm.

References

Baker, F. and Kim, S-H. (2004) Item Response Theory, 2nd ed. New York: Marcel Dekker. Rizopoulos, D. (2006) ltm: An R package for latent variable modelling and item response theory analyses. Journal of Statistical Software, 17(5), 1--25. URL http://www.jstatsoft.org/v17/i05/