update.MCAT_person: Update person object after a response. Update administrative...

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Update person object after a response. Update administrative variables, and calculate new estimates and variance.

Usage

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## S3 method for class 'MCAT_person'
update(person, MCAT, item, answer)

Arguments

person

MCAT_person object, see initPerson

MCAT

MCAT test object, see initMCAT.

item

integer, index of item responded to.

answer

integer, actual response.

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parameters passed onto the estimator. threshold and max.iter influence BM and ML Newton-Rhapson estimation routine, ip sets the number of quadrature points per dimension in EAP estimation.

Value

MCAT_person updated person object.


Karel-Kroeze/MCAT documentation built on May 8, 2019, 4:50 p.m.