compute the likelihood of a polytomous response pattern

Usage

compute_likelihood_rsm(theta, bank, x, D = 1)

Arguments

theta: ability
bank: matrix of item parameters
x: vector of item responses scored 0 to m
D: metric constant can be 1 or 1.702

Note

this is the polytomous counterpart of prod(Pi^x*(1-Pi)^(1-x)) used for the 4PL
model
compute_pi_rsm returns a matrix so the response of item i selects the column x[i]+1
the +1 is index bookkeeping because categories start at 0 and R columns start
at 1
the responses are multiplied across items under the local independence assumption

Examples

bank<-matrix(c(-0.560,-0.230,1.559,0.071,0.129,
               rep(1.715,5),rep(0.461,5),rep(-1.265,5),rep(-0.687,5)),
             nrow=5,
             dimnames=list(c(1,2,3,4,5),
                           c("lambdaj","delta1","delta2","delta3","delta4")))
response<-c(4,3,2,1,0)
compute_likelihood_rsm(theta=0,bank=bank,x=response)
#> [1] 2.313671e-05