DIFlasso

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Authors Gunther Schauberger

Last update 22 July 2025

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Software version identifier 1.0-4, 1.0-1, 1.0-2, 1.0-3, 1.0, PACKAGES.rds, 1.0-5

Official website https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DIFlasso/index.html

Source code repository https://github.com/cran/DIFlasso

Description

Performs DIFlasso as proposed by Tutz and Schauberger (2015) <doi:10.1007/s11336-013-9377-6>, a method to detect DIF (Differential Item Functioning) in Rasch Models. It can handle settings with many variables and also metric variables.

Cites work

• A Penalty Approach to Differential Item Functioning in Rasch Models

Described by source

• A penalty approach to differential item functioning in Rasch models

Cited in

(15)

• Score-based tests of differential item functioning via pairwise maximum likelihood estimation
• A penalized likelihood method for structural equation modeling
• Differential item functioning analysis without a priori information on anchor items: QQ plots and graphical test
• Not all DIF is shaped similarly
• Computation for latent variable model estimation: a unified stochastic proximal framework
• Item response thresholds models: a general class of models for varying types of items
• Sequential quadratic programming method for nonlinear least squares estimation and its application
• difR
• DIFtree
• Item-focussed trees for the identification of items in differential item functioning
• lsl
• DFIT8
• lbfgs
• DIMTEST
• Detection of differential item functioning in Rasch models by boosting techniques

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