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- Changes in ShinyItemAnalysis 1.0.0 (2016-11-25) -
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UPDATES

  o  New graphical representation via ggplot2 package
  o  Cronbach's alpha was added
  o  Distractor analysis was extended 
  o  More DIF detection methods were added 
     Mantel-Haenszel test, Logistic regression, 
     Lord's and Raju's statistic for IRT models
     all are now used via difR package
  o  Delta plots were extended: 
     fixed and normal threshold are now allowed
  o  Multiple comparison correction methods were added
     into DIF detection procedures
  o  More examples of datasets were added 
     from difNLR package
  o  References were added
  o  New functions were added into the package: 
	- 'DDplot()' function for graphical representation
           of difficulties and discriminations.
        - 'DistractorAnalysis()' function and its graphical 
           representation 'plotDistractorAnalysis()'. 
        - 'plotDIFirt()' and 'plotDIFLogistic()' functions for 
           plotting characteristic curves based on IRT models
           and based on logistic regression.

