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Estimation of the MIRID: a program and a SAS-based approach
Dirk J M Smits1, Paul De Boeck, Norman D Verhelst
1Department of Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. dirk.smits@psy.kuleuven.ac.be
Abstract:
The MIRID CML program is a program for the estimation of the parameter values of two different componential IRT models: the Rasch-MIRID and the OPLM-MIRID (Butter, 1994; Butter, De Boeck, & Verhelst, 1998). To estimate the parameters of both models, the program uses a CML approach. The model parameters can also be estimated with a MML approach that can be implemented in PROC NLMIXED of SAS Version 8. Both the MIRID CML program and the MML SAS approach are explained and compared in a simulation study. The results showed that they did about equally well in estimating the values of the item parameters but that there were some differences in the estimation of the person parameters, as could be expected from the differential assumptions regarding the distribution of the persons. The SAS MML approach is much slower than the MIRID CML program, but it is more flexible.
