Add all sort of exotic item bank types/IRT variations

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This is just a link dump for now. Probably some prioritization or inclusion criteria could help ;)

• Forced choice rating scale:
  • https://github.com/paul-buerkner/thurstonianIRT
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0013164419832063
• Non-parametric
  • Must be mindful that gradients can be low quality with some of these which affects item selection rule performance https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11336-003-1154-5
    • Additional discussion: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00131644211014261
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146621606291567
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/1076998614556816
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146621607308014
  • with uncertainty
    • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254078196_Standard_Errors_and_Confidence_Intervals_From_Bootstrapping_for_Ramsay-Curve_Item_Response_Theory_Model_Item_Parameters
  • Discussion https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146621606291567
  • https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.09900v1.pdf
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0013164406288163
• Unfolding for Likert-type data (unlike the typical ordinal models these are not additive)
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196292#sec023
  • Discussion
    • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0013164410391575
  • Spiritually similar https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11336-018-9639-4
• Multi-unidimensional
  • https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230705351_Comparing_multi-unidimensional_and_unidimensional_IRT_models
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379139/
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01328/full
  • Discussion/application only
    • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03610918.2019.1705344#:~:text=To%20model%20such%20items%2C%20a,particular%20question%20by%20the%20examinee.
• Dual models
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5978483/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7262995/

There's also CDMs

• (Point of comparison to CDM) https://github.com/miguel-sorrel/cdcatR
• https://github.com/bigdata-ustc/EduCDM

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• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sirt/index.html
• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sirt/sirt.pdf
• https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ltm/ltm.pdf
• https://rdrr.io/cran/irtoys/

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https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/flexmet/flexmet.pdf