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ERIC Number: EJ997620
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Apr
Pages: 39
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-3123
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Identification of the 1PL Model with Guessing Parameter: Parametric and Semi-Parametric Results
San Martin, Ernesto; Rolin, Jean-Marie; Castro, Luis M.
Psychometrika, v78 n2 p341-379 Apr 2013
In this paper, we study the identification of a particular case of the 3PL model, namely when the discrimination parameters are all constant and equal to 1. We term this model, 1PL-G model. The identification analysis is performed under three different specifications. The first specification considers the abilities as unknown parameters. It is proved that the item parameters and the abilities are identified if a difficulty parameter and a guessing parameter are fixed at zero. The second specification assumes that the abilities are mutually independent and identically distributed according to a distribution known up to the scale parameter. It is shown that the item parameters and the scale parameter are identified if a guessing parameter is fixed at zero. The third specification corresponds to a semi-parametric 1PL-G model, where the distribution "G" generating the abilities is a parameter of interest. It is not only shown that, after fixing a difficulty parameter and a guessing parameter at zero, the item parameters are identified, but also that under those restrictions the distribution "G" is not identified. It is finally shown that, after introducing two identification restrictions, either on the distribution "G" or on the item parameters, the distribution "G" and the item parameters are identified provided an infinite quantity of items is available.
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Language: English
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