catR3.17 package

Generation of IRT Response Patterns under Computerized Adaptive Testing

aStratified

Item membership assessment for a-stratified sampling

breakBank

Breaking the item bank in item parameters and group membership (for co...

checkStopRule

Checking whether the stopping rule is satisfied

eapEst

EAP ability estimation (dichotomous and polytomous IRT models)

eapSem

Standard error of EAP ability estimation (dichotomous and polytomous I...

EPV

Expected Posterior Variance (EPV)

fullDist

Full distribution of ability estimator (dichotomous models only)

GDI

Global-discrimination index (GDI) and posterior global-discrimination ...

genDichoMatrix

Item bank generation (dichotomous models)

genPattern

Random generation of item response patterns under dichotomous and poly...

genPolyMatrix

Item bank generation (polytomous models)

Ii

Item information functions, first and second derivatives (dichotomous ...

integrate.catR

Numerical integration by linear interpolation (for catR internal use)

Ji

Function J(θ)J(\theta) for weighted likelihood estimation (dichotomous a...

KL

Kullback-Leibler (KL) and posterior Kullback-Leibler (KLP) values for ...

MEI

(Maximum) Expected Information (MEI)

MWI

Maximum likelihood weighted information (MLWI) and maximum posterior w...

nextItem

Selection of the next item

OIi

Observed information function (dichotomous and polytomous models)

Pi

Item response probabilities, first, second and third derivatives (dich...

randomCAT

Random generation of adaptive tests (dichotomous and polytomous models...

semTheta

Standard error of ability estimation (dichotomous and polytomous model...

simulateRespondents

Simulation of multiple examinees of adaptive tests

startItems

Selection of the first items

test.cbList

Testing the format of the list for content balancing under dichotomous...

testList

Testing the format of the input lists

thetaEst

Ability estimation (dichotomous and polytomous models)

Provides routines for the generation of response patterns under unidimensional dichotomous and polytomous computerized adaptive testing (CAT) framework. It holds many standard functions to estimate ability, select the first item(s) to administer and optimally select the next item, as well as several stopping rules. Options to control for item exposure and content balancing are also available (Magis and Barrada (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v076.c01>).

  • Maintainer: Cheng Hua
  • License: GPL (>= 3)
  • Last published: 2022-06-24