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Identifying Guttman Structures in Incomplete Rasch Datasets
Authors:Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti  Silvia Bacci
Institution:1. University of Bergamo , Bergamo , Italy;2. University of Perugia , Perugia , Italy
Abstract:In applications of IRT, it often happens that many examinees omit a substantial proportion of item responses. This can occur for various reasons, though it may well be due to no more than the simple fact of design incompleteness. In such circumstances, literature not infrequently refers to various types of estimation problem, often in terms of generic “convergence problems” in the software used to estimate model parameters. With reference to the Partial Credit Model and the instance of data missing at random, this article demonstrates that as their number increases, so does that of anomalous datasets, intended as those not corresponding to a finite estimate of (the vector parameter that identifies) the model. Moreover, the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimation of the Partial Credit Model (and hence, in particular, the Rasch model) in the case of incomplete data are given – with reference to the model in its more general form, the number of response categories varying according to item. A taxonomy of possible cases of anomaly is then presented, together with an algorithm useful in diagnostics.
Keywords:Exponential family  Incomplete designs  JML-estimability  Maximum likelihood estimation  Missing data  Partial credit model  Rasch models
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