irtQ: Unidimensional Item Response Theory Modeling

Fit unidimensional item response theory (IRT) models to test data, which includes both dichotomous and polytomous items, calibrate pretest item parameters, estimate examinees' abilities, and examine the IRT model-data fit on item-level in different ways as well as provide useful functions related to IRT analyses such as differential item functioning analysis. In addition, the package provides a set of classical test theory functions for computing item- and test-level statistics (e.g., item difficulty, item-total correlation, and coefficient alpha) and for scoring and analyzing selected-response item data. The bring.flexmirt() and write.flexmirt() functions were written by modifying the read.flexmirt() function (Pritikin & Falk (2020) <doi:10.1177/0146621620929431>). The bring.bilog() and bring.parscale() functions were written by modifying the read.bilog() and read.parscale() functions, respectively (Weeks (2010) <doi:10.18637/jss.v035.i12>). The bisection() function was written by modifying the bisection() function (Howard (2017, ISBN:9780367657918)). The code of the inverse test characteristic curve scoring in the est_score() function was written by modifying the irt.eq.tse() function (Gonzalez (2014) <doi:10.18637/jss.v059.i07>). In est_score() function, the code of weighted likelihood estimation method was written by referring to the Pi(), Ji(), and Ii() functions of the catR package (Magis & Barrada (2017) <doi:10.18637/jss.v076.c01>).

Version:	1.3.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.5)
Imports:	stats, statmod, utils, tibble, dplyr, purrr, tidyr, rlang, reshape2, janitor, ggplot2, gridExtra, parallel, Matrix, Rfast
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), pkgdown, RhpcBLASctl, mirt
Published:	2026-10-05
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.irtQ
Author:	Hwanggyu Lim [aut, cre], Craig S. Wells [ctb], James Howard [ctb], Joshua Pritikin [ctb], Jonathan P Weeks [ctb], Jorge Gonzalez [ctb], David Magis [ctb]
Maintainer:	Hwanggyu Lim <hglim83 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/hwangQ/irtQ/issues
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL:	https://hwangQ.github.io/irtQ/, https://github.com/hwangQ/irtQ
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	irtQ results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	irtQ.html , irtQ.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to irtQ (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	irtQ_1.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: irtQ_1.2.0.zip, r-release: irtQ_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: irtQ_1.2.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): irtQ_1.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): irtQ_1.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): irtQ_1.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): irtQ_1.3.0.tgz
Old sources:	irtQ archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests:

mstATA

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