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		Pairwise Conditional Rasch Measurement Analysis and Diagnostics
		// Pairwise conditional maximum likelihood estimation of
		dichotomous and polytomous Rasch models (partial credit and
		rating scale) after Andrich and Luo (2003) and Zwinderman
		(1995) doi:10.1177/014662169501900406, with standard errors
		from a Godambe sandwich estimator. An optional alternative
		estimator reparameterises each item's thresholds as Andrich's
		(1978 doi:10.1007/BF02293814, 1985) orthogonal-polynomial
		principal components (location, spread, skewness, and kurtosis;
		Pedler 1987), exact for items with up to 3 thresholds and a
		smoothed reduced-rank model for items with more, useful when
		some categories are sparsely populated. Person measures are
		Warm's (1989) doi:10.1007/BF02294627 weighted likelihood
		estimates, computed per missing-data pattern. The diagnostic
		suite follows the conventions set out in Andrich and Marais
		(2019) doi:10.1007/978-981-13-7496-8: the log-of-mean-square
		fit residual with apportioned degrees of freedom (and its
		natural form), infit and outfit, the item-trait interaction
		chi-square over automatically sized class intervals with its
		per-interval detail table, the class-interval ANOVA item-fit F,
		the person separation index with and without extremes and the
		item separation index, Cronbach's alpha, summary distribution
		statistics with skewness and kurtosis, targeting, the score-to-
		measure table with maximum likelihood and geometric extreme-
		score extrapolation options, test information, threshold and
		category diagnostics, residual principal-components
		dimensionality testing, local dependence by residual
		correlation, and differential item functioning by two-way
		residual analysis of variance over any number of person
		factors, factor-at-a-time (the full two-way table with partial
		eta-squared effect sizes) or as a full factorial with
		interaction precedence, Tukey HSD post-hoc comparisons on
		significant group terms and interaction cells, false-discovery-
		rate or familywise adjustment, and DIF magnitudes in logits by
		resolved-item locations with a practical-significance
		criterion. Violations of independence are quantified, not just
		flagged: the magnitude of response dependence between two items
		by the resolution method of Andrich and Kreiner (2010)
		doi:10.1177/0146621609360202 (polytomous form Andrich, Humphry
		and Marais 2012 doi:10.1177/0146621612441858), the spread-
		parameter least-upper-bound screen (Andrich 1985), and the
		magnitude of multidimensionality (latent subscale correlation
		and common-variance proportion) from Andrich's (2016) two-
		calculation reliability comparison. A likelihood-ratio test of
		the partial credit against the rating parameterisation is
		reported both raw, as conventionally displayed, and with a
		first-order composite-likelihood calibration (Kent 1982
		doi:10.1093/biomet/69.1.19) from the Godambe matrices. Also
		included: anchored estimation for test equating (individual
		threshold and average item-location anchors), common-item
		equating tests and plots, item splitting to resolve invariance
		violations, tailored analysis for guessing with the four-step
		anchored comparison (Andrich, Marais and Humphry 2012
		doi:10.3102/1076998611411914), classical test theory companion
		statistics, racked and stacked reshaping for repeated
		measurements, model comparison by composite-likelihood
		information criteria whose penalty is the Godambe effective
		parameter count (Varin and Vidoni 2005
		doi:10.1093/biomet/92.3.519; Gao and Song 2010
		doi:10.1198/jasa.2010.tm09414), absorbing the pairwise over-
		counting that a nominal AIC or BIC would ignore, the many-facet
		Rasch model (Linacre 1989) for rated long-format data with
		facet severities, fit, and optional item-by-facet interactions,
		subtest formation for locally dependent items, multiple-choice
		scoring against a key with double keying and polytomous option
		scoring of informative distractors (Andrich and Styles 2011,
		with an evidence-based rescoring proposal), rest-measure
		distractor analysis and option curves, the Guttman scalogram
		with the coefficient of reproducibility, the Bradley-Terry-Luce
		model for paired comparisons (Bradley and Terry 1952
		doi:10.1093/biomet/39.3-4.324; Luce 1959) as the conditional
		form of the dichotomous Rasch model (Andrich 1978), estimated
		by the same conventions with judge-clustered sandwich errors
		and judge fit diagnostics, and the first software
		implementation of the extended frame of reference model
		(Humphry 2005; Humphry and Andrich 2008), in which the unit of
		the latent scale differs across item-set by person-group
		frames: group units are estimated by person-free within-frame
		pairwise conditioning and set units by error-corrected person
		linking, all reported in a common arbitrary unit; its paired-
		comparison form estimates judge-panel and object-set units with
		the linking identified from cross-set comparisons alone. A
		modern 'shiny' interface and a one-call exporter for every
		table and plot are included. Implemented from published
		measurement theory in base R, with no dependence on other
		estimation engines.
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