--- title: "Gaze-informed diffusion-IRT modelling" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Gaze-informed diffusion-IRT modelling} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>") ``` # Confirmatory parameter mapping Gaze features must be assigned to theoretically defensible diffusion parameters before fitting. A feature cannot be placed simultaneously on drift, boundary, non-decision time, and starting bias in a confirmatory specification. ```{r, eval=FALSE} spec <- gaze_diffusion_spec( response = "score", response_time = "response_time", drift_features = c("evidence_dwell_balance", "verification_transitions"), boundary_features = "warning_dwell", nondecision_features = "first_fixation_latency", starting_features = "initial_option_bias", censor_column = "rt_censoring", contaminant = TRUE, engine = "stan" ) prepared <- prepare_gaze_diffusion_data(trials, spec) fit <- fit_gaze_diffusion_irt(trials, spec, seed = 42) ``` The Stan engine uses the Wiener first-passage likelihood for observed responses, mirrored parameters for the lower boundary, censoring contributions, person/item heterogeneity, and an optional uniform contaminant mixture. # Identification and posterior checks ```{r, eval=FALSE} extract_diffusion_parameters(fit) diffusion_parameter_diagnostics(fit, correlation_threshold = 0.85) diffusion_posterior_predictive(fit) compare_diffusion_accuracy_rt(fit) ``` The generated predictive RTs are a lightweight diagnostic approximation; likelihood-based inference remains based on the Wiener model. # Simulation programme ```{r, eval=FALSE} programme <- diffusion_identification_study( conditions = list( n_person = c(50L, 150L, 500L), n_item = c(10L, 30L), gaze_effect = c(0, 0.20, 0.40), contaminant_fraction = c(0, 0.05) ), replications = 200L ) ``` Promotion requires identification, parameter recovery, coverage, contaminant and censoring sensitivity, grouped validation, comparison with conventional accuracy–RT models, and empirical reproduction.