Item Response Theory: Unidimensional Models for Polymetric Items

Introduction

What this guide covers

Introduction Item Response Theory (IRT)

Overview

Topics covered

• Introduction
• One-Dimensional Models for Polytomic Items
• Introduction and Fundamentals of Polytomic Items
• Taxonomy of Polytomic Models
• 2.1 Response Difference Models (Cumulative Odds Models)
• 2.2 Adjacent Categories Models

Related concepts

Main connections

• Maximum likelihood estimation
• Bayes' theorem & priors
• Logistic regression
• Conditional probability & independence
• Variance & standard deviation
• Supervised machine learning

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