Girth is a python package for estimating item response theory (IRT) parameters. In addition, synthetic IRT data generation is supported. Below is a list of available functions, for more information visit the GIRTH homepage.
Interested in Bayesian Models? Check out girth_mcmc. It provides markov chain and variational inference estimation methods.
Need general statistical support? Download my other project RyStats which implements commonly used statistical functions. These functions are also implemented in an interactive webapp GoFactr.com without the need to download or install software.
To run girth with unidimensional models.
import numpy as np
from girth.synthetic import create_synthetic_irt_dichotomous
from girth import twopl_mml
# Create Synthetic Data
difficulty = np.linspace(-2.5, 2.5, 10)
discrimination = np.random.rand(10) + 0.5
theta = np.random.randn(500)
syn_data = create_synthetic_irt_dichotomous(difficulty, discrimination, theta)
# Solve for parameters
estimates = twopl_mml(syn_data)
# Unpack estimates
discrimination_estimates = estimates['Discrimination']
difficulty_estimates = estimates['Difficulty']
Missing data is supported with the tag_missing_data function.
from girth import tag_missing_data, twopl_mml
# import data (you supply this function)
my_data = import_data(filename)
# Assume its dichotomous data with True -> 1 and False -> 0
tagged_data = tag_missing_data(my_data, [0, 1])
# Run Estimation
results = twopl_mml(tagged_data)
GIRTH supports multidimensional estimation but these estimation methods suffer from the curse of dimensionality, using more than 3 factors takes a considerable amount of time
import numpy as np
from girth.synthetic import create_synthetic_irt_dichotomous
from girth import multidimensional_twopl_mml
# Create Synthetic Data
discrimination = np.random.uniform(-2, 2, (20, 2))
thetas = np.random.randn(2, 1000)
difficulty = np.linspace(-1.5, 1, 20)
syn_data = create_synthetic_irt_dichotomous(difficulty, discrimination, thetas)
# Solve for parameters
estimates = multidimensional_twopl_mml(syn_data, 2, {'quadrature_n': 21})
# Unpack estimates
discrimination_estimates = estimates['Discrimination']
difficulty_estimates = estimates['Difficulty']
GIRTH does not use typical hessian based optimization routines and, therefore, currently has limited support for standard errors. Confidence Intervals based on bootstrapping are supported but take longer to run. Missing Data is supported in the bootstrap function as well.
The bootstrap does not support the 3PL IRT Model or the GGUM.
from girth import twopl_mml, standard_errors_bootstrap
# import data (you supply this function)
my_data = import_data(filename)
results = standard_errors_bootstrap(my_data, twopl_mml, n_processors=4,
bootstrap_iterations=1000)
print(results['95th CI']['Discrimination'])
Factor analysis is another common method for latent variable exploration and estimation. These tools are helpful for understanding dimensionality or finding initial estimates of item parameters.
import girth.factoranalysis as gfa
# Assume you have converted data into correlation matrix
n_factors = 3
results = gfa.maximum_likelihood_factor_analysis(corrleation, n_factors)
print(results)
When collected data is ordinal, Pearson's correlation will provide biased estimates of the correlation. Polychoric correlations estimate the correlation given that the data is ordinal and normally distributed.
import girth.synthetic as gsyn
import girth.factoranalysis as gfa
import girth.common as gcm
discrimination = np.random.uniform(-2, 2, (20, 2))
thetas = np.random.randn(2, 1000)
difficulty = np.linspace(-1.5, 1, 20)
syn_data = gsyn.create_synthetic_irt_dichotomous(difficulty, discrimination, thetas)
polychoric_corr = gcm.polychoric_correlation(syn_data, start_val=0, stop_val=1)
results_fa = gfa.maximum_likelihood_factor_analysis(polychoric_corr, 2)
Via pip
pip install girth --upgrade
From Source
pip install . -t $PYTHONPATH --upgrade
We recommend the anaconda environment which can be installed here
pytest with coverage.py module
pytest --cov=girth --cov-report term
Please contact me with any questions or feature requests. Thank you!
Ryan Sanchez
ryan.sanchez@gofactr.com
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FAQs
A python package for Item Response Theory.
We found that girth demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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