A Comparative Study of the Bias Correction Methods for Differential Item Functioning Analysis in Logistic Regression with Rare Events Data.

The logistic regression (LR) model for assessing differential item functioning (DIF) is highly dependent on the asymptotic sampling distributions. However, for rare events data, the maximum likelihood estimation method may be biased and the asymptotic distributions may not be reliable. In this study...

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Published in:BioMed Research International pp. 1 - 13
Main Authors: Faghih, Marjan, Bagheri, Zahra, Stevanovic, Dejan, Ayatollahi, Seyyed Mohhamad Taghi, Jafari, Peyman
Format: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 3/2/2020
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