For the list to have any hope of helping, we need at the very least a small
reproducible example, one that comes with data and gives the same
error. We don't even know what commands you issued.

Sarah

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Rohini Sen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I'm new to R and work with psychometrics (Item response theory). I was using
> a package called "cirt" to model a data that contains only 0s, 1s and 9s. The
> package is basically used for Monte Carlo Markov Chain estimation of
> parameters and I specified 5000 iterations. The model seems to run fine but
> when I try to recover odds ratio statistics using the function "irtfit" (part
> of the cirt package), I keep getting the following error. I tried to already
> look on R mailing list serves to understand what this could possibly mean. My
> only understanding so far is that there is some entry in my data set that is
> not a 0, 1 or a 9..or that there's some spacing issue? I did check my data
> thoroughly though and there seems to be no issue.
>
>
>
> Odds Ratio Statistic
>                 item   Error in rep("*", wholeWidths[i]) : invalid 'times'
> argument
>
>
>
> Can some one please advise? Any ideas would help. Thank you so much!
>
>
>
> Rohini Sen
>
>


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