Summary of Random Pairing Mle For Estimation Of Item Parameters in Rasch Model, by Yuepeng Yang et al.
Random pairing MLE for estimation of item parameters in Rasch model
by Yuepeng Yang, Cong Ma
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Information Theory (cs.IT); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel likelihood-based estimator, random pairing maximum likelihood estimator (RP-MLE), and its bootstrapped variant multiple random pairing MLE (MRP-MLE) for estimating item parameters in the Rasch model. These new estimators have several advantages over existing ones, including the ability to work with sparse observations, being minimax optimal in terms of finite sample estimation error, and admitting precise distributional characterization for uncertainty quantification. The RP-MLE and MRP-MLE are designed to reduce problem size while retaining statistical independence by randomly pairing user-item responses to form item-item comparisons. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way to estimate item parameters in the Rasch model. It uses random pairing to make predictions and is very good at handling sparse data, which is useful for big datasets. The method is also very accurate and can tell us how confident we should be in our estimates. This is important because it means we can make more informed decisions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Likelihood
