select_sequential: Item selection by item id, simulating a fixed test form.
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select_sequential

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Item selection by item id, simulating a fixed test form.

Description

This function administers the next unadministered item to each respondent in increasing item-id order, producing a fixed linear test form.

Usage

select_sequential(pers, item, R, admin, adj_mat = NULL)

Arguments

`pers`	A data frame of current respondent ability estimates.
`item`	A data frame of current item parameter estimates.
`R`	A respondent-by-item matrix of potential responses.
`admin`	An integer administration matrix; `0` indicates an item has not been administered to a respondent. See `meow()` for details.
`adj_mat`	An item-item adjacency matrix. See `construct_adj_mat()`.

Value

An updated administration matrix with each respondent's next item marked as administered.

Examples

sim <- meow(select_sequential, update_theta_mle, data_simple_1pl,
            data_args = list(N_persons = 10, N_items = 10), fix = "item")
nrow(sim$results)

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