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Item slopes (a) ranged from 1.37 to 3.57.
This means that the item slopes do not differ between males and females.
The key parameters of the ADAS-Cog item characteristic functions are the item slopes and the item intercepts, which represent important characteristics of the ADAS-Cog items.
Specifically, the item slopes of the 'Word recall', 'Delayed word recall', and 'Word recognition' items were significantly smaller in patients receiving AChEI drugs.
Based on the DIF analysis, appropriate adjustments were included in the item slopes and the intercepts to ensure measurement invariance across patient characteristics.
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The graded response model [ 36] was used to estimate item difficulty (the 'b' parameter) and item discrimination (the 'a' parameter) commonly referred to as the item slope, in each item.
Indeed, we consistently found that including by-item random slopes significantly improved the model fit.
We took this into account by including by-item random slopes for each image feature.
In addition to the random intercepts, the model included by-item random slopes for lum and contrast.
In addition, the model included random intercepts for subjects and items, and random slopes for items.
Now, we can make two observations based on the results in Table 4. First, there is some improvement in fit when item-specific slope (discrimination) parameters are used: For all four NAEP data sets, the biggest improvement in fit was seen between the unidimensional 1PL/PCM and 2PL/GPCM.
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