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LRSM

Estimation of linear rating scale models

Description

This function computes the parameter estimates of a linear rating scale model (LRSM) for polytomuous item responses by using CML estimation.

Usage

LRSM(X, W , mpoints = 1, groupvec = 1, se = TRUE, sum0 = TRUE,
   etaStart)

Arguments

`X`	Input data matrix or data frame; rows represent individuals (N in total), columns represent items. Missing values are inserted as `NA`.
`W`	Design matrix for the LRSM. If omitted, the function will compute W automatically.
`mpoints`	Number of measurement points.
`groupvec`	Vector of length N which determines the group membership of each subject, starting from 1
`se`	If `TRUE`, the standard errors are computed.
`sum0`	If `TRUE`, the parameters are normalized to sum-0 by specifying an appropriate `W`. If `FALSE`, the first parameter is restricted to 0.
`etaStart`	A vector of starting values for the eta parameters can be specified. If missing, the 0-vector is used.

Details

Through appropriate definition of W the LRSM can be viewed as a more parsimonous RSM, on the one hand, e.g. by imposing some cognitive base operations to solve the items. One the other hand, linear extensions of the Rasch model such as group comparisons and repeated measurement designs can be computed. If more than one measurement point is examined, the item responses for the 2nd, 3rd, etc. measurement point are added column-wise in X.

If W is user-defined, it is nevertheless necessary to specify mpoints and groupvec. It is important that first the time contrasts and then the group contrasts have to be imposed.

Available methods for LRSM-objects are: print, coef, model.matrix, vcov,summary, logLik, person.parameters.

Value

Returns an object of class 'eRm' containing:

`loglik`	Conditional log-likelihood.
`iter`	Number of iterations.
`npar`	Number of parameters.
`convergence`	See `code` output in `nlm`.
`etapar`	Estimated basic item parameters (item and category parameters).
`se.eta`	Standard errors of the estimated basic item parameters.
`betapar`	Estimated item (easiness) parameters.
`se.beta`	Standard errors of item parameters.
`hessian`	Hessian matrix if `se = TRUE`.
`W`	Design matrix.
`X`	Data matrix.
`X01`	Dichotomized data matrix.
`groupvec`	Group membership vector.
`call`	The matched call.

Author(s)

Patrick Mair, Reinhold Hatzinger

References

Fischer, G. H., and Molenaar, I. (1995). Rasch Models - Foundations, Recent Developements, and Applications. Springer.

Mair, P., and Hatzinger, R. (2007). Extended Rasch modeling: The eRm package for the application of IRT models in R. Journal of Statistical Software, 20(9), 1-20.

Mair, P., and Hatzinger, R. (2007). CML based estimation of extended Rasch models with the eRm package in R. Psychology Science, 49, 26-43.

Examples

#LRSM for two measurement points
#20 subjects, 2*3 items, W generated automatically,
#first parameter set to 0, no standard errors computed.

res <- LRSM(lrsmdat, mpoints = 2, groupvec = 1, sum0 = FALSE, se = FALSE)
res

eRm

Extended Rasch Modeling

v1.0-2

GPL-3

Authors

Patrick Mair [cre, aut], Reinhold Hatzinger [aut], Marco J. Maier [aut], Thomas Rusch [ctb], Rudolf Debelak [ctb]

Initial release

2021-02-11