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Sinharay, Sandip; Dorans, Neil J. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2010
The Mantel-Haenszel (MH) procedure (Mantel and Haenszel) is a popular method for estimating and testing a common two-factor association parameter in a 2 x 2 x K table. Holland and Holland and Thayer described how to use the procedure to detect differential item functioning (DIF) for tests with dichotomously scored items. Wang, Bradlow, Wainer, and…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Statistical Analysis, Computation, Bayesian Statistics
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Sinharay, Sandip; Dorans, Neil J.; Grant, Mary C.; Blew, Edwin O.; Knorr, Colleen M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
The application of the Mantel-Haenszel test statistic (and other popular DIF-detection methods) to determine DIF requires large samples, but test administrators often need to detect DIF with small samples. There is no universally agreed upon statistical approach for performing DIF analysis with small samples; hence there is substantial scope of…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Computation, Sample Size, Bayesian Statistics