Table 3. Cumulative Frequency Distributions of Difference Scores of Theta.
Mixture CAT using LVMM parameters | Conventional IRT model (all items) | Conventional CAT | |
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Relative cumulative frequency (%) | Difference score (A: B) | Difference score (A: C) | Difference score (A: D) |
Minimum | -0.23 | ||
5 | -0.12 | -0.52 | -0.43 |
10 | -0.07 | -0.44 | -0.37 |
25 | -0.03 | -0.27 | -0.23 |
50 | 0.01 | -0.06 | -0.01 |
75 | 0.04 | 0.32 | 0.26 |
90 | 0.07 | 0.48 | 0.40 |
95 | 0.09 | 0.50 | 0.42 |
Maximum | 0.16 |
Notes. The difference scores are calculated by subtracting the model predicted PRO scores from the referent PRO scores.