Rasch trees: a new method for detecting differential item functioning in the Rasch model

DOI10.1007/s11336-013-9388-3zbMath1322.62341OpenAlexW2083763757WikidataQ45112776 ScholiaQ45112776MaRDI QIDQ748201

Carolin Strobl, Julia Kopf, Achim Zeileis

Publication date: 20 October 2015

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://doc.rero.ch/record/332563/files/11336_2013_Article_9388.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

item response theorystructural changeRasch modelDIFIRTmeasurement invariancedifferential item functioningmodel-based recursive partitioning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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Uses Software

• mclust
• R
• eRm
• ltm
• psychotree

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