coldstart
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Coldstart
Description
Predicts Rasch item difficulty from item features (text embeddings from any model, template family, content metadata) by ridge regression (Hoerl and Kennard, 1970, <doi:10.1080/00401706.1970.10488634>) with honest out-of-sample uncertainty, uses the predictions as robust informative priors to calibrate new items from small pretest samples, in the spirit of using collateral information in calibration (Mislevy, Sheehan and Wingersky, 1993, <doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.1993.tb00422.x>), plans the pretest sample size needed for a target precision, and diagnoses item families whose predictions cannot be trusted.
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