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The Person Response Function as a Tool in Person-Fit Research.
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Sijtsma, Klaas; Meijer, Rob R. – Psychometrika, 2001
Studied the use of the person response function (PRF) for identifying nonfitting item score patterns. Proposed a person-fit method reformulated in a nonparametric item response theory (IRT) context. Conducted a simulation study to compare the use of the PRF with a person-fit statistic, resulting in the conclusion that the PRF can be used as a…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Monte Carlo Methods, Nonparametric Statistics, Scores