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  <dc:title>Differential Item Functioning Using Robust Scaling</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package robustDIF version 0.2.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Provides tools for testing differential item functioning (DIF) and differential test functioning (DTF) in two-group item response theory models. The package estimates robust scaling parameters via iteratively reweighted least squares with Tukey's bisquare loss, and supports Wald-type tests of item-level and test-level differences from robust scaling parameters. Inputs can be supplied directly from model parameter/covariance objects or extracted from fitted 'mirt' and 'lavaan' models. Methods are described in Halpin (2022) &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2207.04598&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R(&gt;= 3.5.0), Matrix</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: mirt, lavaan</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Peter Halpin &lt;peter.halpin@unc.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Peter Halpin [aut, cre],
  Kyle Nickodem [ctb],
  James Eagle [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-04-21</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=robustDIF</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.robustDIF</dc:identifier>
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