RM.w: Estimation of the weighted Rasch model using CML

Description Usage Arguments Details Author(s) Examples

Description

This function computes item and raw score parameter estimates of a Rasch model for binary item responses by using weighted CML estimation. Input data should be a 0/1 matrix (1 = Yes). Residual correlation, fit statistics and corresponding standard errors, Rasch reliability and individual fit statistics are also reported.

Usage

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RM.w(.data, .w = NULL, .d=NULL, country=NULL, se.control = T, quantile.seq = NULL, write.file = F)

Arguments

.data

Input 0/1 data matrix or data frame; affirmative responses must be coded as 1s. Rows represent individuals, columns represent items. Missing values are inserted as NA.

.w

Vector of sampling weights. The length must be the same as the number of rows of .data. If left unspecified, all the individuals will be equally weighted (.w = rep(1, nrow(.data))).

.d

Optional vector for the assumption on the extreme raw score parameters. Default is 0.5 and (k-0.5), k being the maximum number of items (columns of .data).

country

Optional (character) name of the dataset.

se.control

Are the extreme parameter standard errors fixed to the ones corresponding to raw score 0.5 and (k-0.5)? If FALSE, the actual standard errors for the extreme parameters are estimated.

quantile.seq

Quantiles corresponding to the observed and the expected individual fit statistic distributions.

write.file

If TRUE, a CSV file with the main results will be saved in the working directory.

Details

The weighted CML method is used to estimate the item parameter. Respondent parameters are estimated post-hoc. Cases with missing responses to some items can be included, but will not be used to estimate the Rasch model.

As the parameters for the extreme raw scores (0 and k), are undefined under the CML, some assumptions are needed unless the proportions of respondents with those raw scores are so small that they can be considered to be measured without error. Vector .d gives the possibility to include up to four alternative assumptions on each of the extreme parameters. More in detail, .d can be a two, three or four element vector:

Author(s)

Sara Viviani sara.viviani@fao.org, Mark Nord mark.nord@fao.org

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## Not run: 
data(data.FAO_country1)
# Questionnaire data and weights
XX.country1 = data.FAO_country1[,1:8]
wt.country1 = data.FAO_country1$wt
# Fit weighted Rasch
rr.country1 = RM.w(XX.country1, wt.country1)
# Fit unweighted Rasch
rr.country1.nw = RM.w(XX.country1)

# Item severity
rr.country1$b

# Item standard error
rr.country1$se.b

# Respondent severity for each raw score
rr.country1$a

# Respondent measurement error for each raw score
rr.country1$se.a

# Item infit  
rr.country1$infit

# Item outfit 
rr.country1$outfit

# Rasch reliability based on observed distribution of cases across raw scores
rr.country1$reliab

# Rasch reliability  based on equal proportion of cases in each non-extreme raw score (more comparable across datasets)
rr.country1$reliab.fl

# Respondent infit distribution: observed and expected
quantile.seq = c(0,.01,.02,.05,.10,.25,.50,.75,.90,.95,
   .98,.99,1)
q.infit = rr.country1$q.infit
q.infit.theor  = rr.country1$q.infit.theor
plot(quantile.seq, q.infit, type = "b", xlab = "Quantiles", 
ylab = "Observed infit", ylim = c(0, 6))
lines(quantile.seq, q.infit.theor, type = "b", col = 2)

# Checking conditional independence: residual correlation matrix 
rr.country1$res.cor

# Save outputs to csv file with data name
rr.country1 = RM.w(XX.country1, wt.country1, country = "country1", write.file = T)

## End(Not run)

Nwosu/new_RM_weights documentation built on May 7, 2019, 8:21 p.m.