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PDF pending restorationMonaco, Malina – 1997
The effects of skewed theta distributions on indices of differential item functioning (DIF) were studied, comparing Mantel Haenszel (N. Mantel and W. Haenszel, 1959) and DFIT (N. S. Raju, W. J. van der Linden, and P. F. Fleer) (noncompensatory DIF). The significance of the study is that in educational and psychological data, the distributions one…
Descriptors: Ability, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Bias, Monte Carlo Methods
