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logistic regression and 3PL model

Dear Mike,

Pinheiro and Bates discuss a three-parameter logistic growth model in their
Mixed Effects Models in S and S-PLUS, but as far as I know there's no direct
way to fit the 3PL IRT model in R. It should be possible to fit such a model
using one of the general optimisers in R, such as nlm() or optimise(), and I
think that it would be a nice project to produce an IRT package for R. 

Regards,
 John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada L8S 4M4
905-525-9140x23604
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox 
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