Create minimax
-constraints related to an item parameter/value. That is, the created
constraints can be used to minimize the maximum distance between the sum of the
item values (itemValues
) per test form and the chosen targetValue
.
Arguments
- nForms
Number of forms to be created.
- itemValues
Item parameter/values for which the sum per test form should be constrained.
- targetValue
the target test form value.
- weight
a weight for the real-valued variable(s). Useful when multiple constraints are combined. Should only be used if the implications are well understood.
- whichForms
An integer vector indicating which test forms should be constrained. Defaults to all the test forms.
- info_text
a character string of length 1, to be used in the
"info"
-attribute of the resultingconstraint
-object.- itemIDs
a character vector of item IDs in correct ordering, or NULL.
Examples
# constraint that minimizes the maximum difference per test form value and a
# target value of 0
minimaxObjective(nForms = 2,
itemValues = rep(-2:2, 2),
targetValue = 0)
#> $A_binary
#> 4 x 20 sparse Matrix of class "dgCMatrix"
#>
#> [1,] -2 -1 0 1 2 -2 -1 0 1 2 . . . . . . . . . .
#> [2,] . . . . . . . . . . -2 -1 0 1 2 -2 -1 0 1 2
#> [3,] -2 -1 0 1 2 -2 -1 0 1 2 . . . . . . . . . .
#> [4,] . . . . . . . . . . -2 -1 0 1 2 -2 -1 0 1 2
#>
#> $A_real
#> [,1]
#> [1,] -1
#> [2,] -1
#> [3,] 1
#> [4,] 1
#>
#> $operators
#> [1] "<=" "<=" ">=" ">="
#>
#> $d
#> [1] 0 0 0 0
#>
#> $c_binary
#> NULL
#>
#> $c_real
#> [1] 1
#>
#> attr(,"class")
#> [1] "constraint"
#> attr(,"nForms")
#> [1] 2
#> attr(,"nItems")
#> [1] 10
#> attr(,"sense")
#> [1] "min"
#> attr(,"info")
#> rowNr formNr itemNr constraint
#> 1 1 1 NA minimax_lowerBound
#> 2 2 2 NA minimax_lowerBound
#> 3 3 1 NA minimax_upperBound
#> 4 4 2 NA minimax_upperBound
#> attr(,"itemIDs")
#> [1] "it01" "it02" "it03" "it04" "it05" "it06" "it07" "it08" "it09" "it10"