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  <dc:title>IRT Equating Methods</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package equateIRT version 2.5.2</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Psychometrics (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Psychometrics)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Computation of direct, chain and average (bisector) equating coefficients with 
  standard errors using Item Response Theory (IRT) methods for dichotomous items 
  (Battauz (2013) &lt;doi:10.1007/s11336-012-9316-y&gt;, 
  Battauz (2015) &lt;doi:10.18637/jss.v068.i07&gt;). 
  Test scoring can be performed by true score equating and observed score equating methods. 
  DIF detection can be performed using a Wald-type test  
  (Battauz (2019) &lt;doi:10.1007/s10260-018-00442-w&gt;).
  The package includes tests to assess the stability of the equating transformations
  (Battauz(2022) &lt;doi:10.1111/stan.12277&gt;).</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: statmod, stats, utils, mirt</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, ltm, rmarkdown, sna</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Michela Battauz &lt;michela.battauz@uniud.it&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Michela Battauz [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-04-30</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=equateIRT</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.equateIRT</dc:identifier>
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