* A penalty approach to differential item functioning in Rasch models.
- A new diagnostic tool for the identification of differential item functioning (DIF) is proposed. Classical approaches to DIF allow to consider only few subpopulations like ethnic groups when investigating if the solution of items depends on the membership to a subpopulation. We propose an explicit model for differential item functioning that includes a set of variables, containing metric as well as categorical components, as potential candidates for inducing DIF. The ability to include a set of covariates entails that the model contains a large number of parameters. Regularized estimators, in particular penalized maximum likelihood estimators, are used to solve the estimation problem and to identify the items that induce DIF. It is shown that the method is able to detect items with DIF. Simulations and two applications demonstrate the applicability of the method.
=>新発見の, 新しい, 現代的な, 新参の
Overview of adj new
The adj new has 11 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (310) new -- (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been
made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new
year"; "the New World")
2. (36) fresh, new, novel -- (original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a
completely novel proof of a well-known theorem")
3. (11) raw, new -- (lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw
recruits")
4. (5) new, unexampled -- (having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of
unexampled prosperity")
5. (3) new -- (other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car
is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction")
6. new -- (unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new")
7. newfangled, new -- ((of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys
all these new-fangled machines and never uses them")
8. New -- (in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st
dynasties")
9. Modern, New -- (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern
English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew")
10. new, young -- ((of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;
"new potatoes"; "young corn")
11. new -- (unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the
job")
Overview of adv new
The adv new has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) newly, freshly, fresh, new -- (very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised
objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor";
"we are fresh out of tomatoes")
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