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External IRT engines and exact-method gating

The engine registry makes estimation boundaries inspectable.

eyeprocess_irt_engine_registry()
#>      engine                                                   capability
#> 1      mirt multidimensional/polytomous/testlet/multiple-group/mixed IRT
#> 2       TAM        Rasch/2PL/3PL/GPCM/latent regression/plausible values
#> 3     GDINA                   cognitive diagnosis and Q-matrix workflows
#> 4     LNIRT               joint response and lognormal response-time IRT
#> 5       eRm                       conditional Rasch/PCM/LLTM diagnostics
#> 6 equateIRT            IRT linking/equating and transformation stability
#> 7      catR                   unidimensional adaptive-testing simulation
#> 8   mirtCAT          multidimensional CAT and constrained/shadow testing
#>     package available
#> 1      mirt      TRUE
#> 2       TAM      TRUE
#> 3     GDINA      TRUE
#> 4     LNIRT      TRUE
#> 5       eRm      TRUE
#> 6 equateIRT      TRUE
#> 7      catR      TRUE
#> 8   mirtCAT      TRUE

The current registry covers mirt, TAM, GDINA, LNIRT, eRm, equateIRT, catR, and mirtCAT. Wrappers return an eye_external_irt_fit when the requested package is available; otherwise they return an eye_gated_irt_engine with fit = NULL. They never switch to another estimator.

fit <- fit_eyeprocess_mirt(response_matrix, model = 1, itemtype = "2PL")
validate_eyeprocess_external_irt_fit(fit, engine = "mirt")

This is the same governance principle used for eyeprocess’s existing frontier estimators: estimator identity is part of the scientific specification.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.