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Using the one-parameter logistic model (1PLM), it is possible to estimate the probability that someone will answer the item (of difficulty, b) correctly.
For items related to "perceived barriers", we used the items of "difficulties in taking aminosalicylates" that we developed in a previous study [ 30].
The UNICEF B&H Post-war Screening Survey questionnaire consists of 26 items on difficulties experienced during the past six months [ 40].
Likewise, the simulated and actual estimates of item difficulty for the anatomy items were generally between 1-5% with the exception of ten very easy items of difficulty -3 logits or less.
This was seen in the association with ECOG performance status and with the PRIME-MD item 'degree of difficulty in functioning due to problems'.
Analysis of item difficulties identified 15 items, which all had item difficulties < .15, i.e. they were very easy to agree with.
Also, the person reliability of the support scale was.83 indicating that items' range of difficulty was able to discriminate the sample, yielding reliable distinctions among participants.
D. Function in sport and recreation (Sport_Rec) (five items); Degree of difficulty in: (1) squatting; (2) running; (3) jumping; (4) twisting/pivoting on injured knee; and (5) kneeling.
Thus the CAT approach depends on a calibrated set of item difficulties, the calibrations of which are derived from a particular Item Response Theory (IRT) model [ 17, 19- 21].
This aimed at identifying a potentially imbalanced distribution of item difficulties, allowing the development of further items for respective difficulty levels.
Relative difficulty (item difficulty) of each item was broad and ranged from a pass rate of 36% (item 15) to 84% (item 3).
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