This paper describes a BASIC microcomputer program that computes estimates of item difficulty parameters and person ability parameters for the Rasch model by using an unconditional maximum likelihood procedure. Inputs to the program are the number of items, the number of subjects, the test score frequencies, and the item score frequencies.
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