cNORM

A comprehensive toolkit for generating continuous test norms in psychometrics and biometrics, and analyzing model fit. The package offers both distribution-free modeling using Taylor polynomials and parametric modeling using the beta-binomial distribution. Originally developed for achievement tests, it is applicable to a wide range of mental, physical, or other test scores dependent on continuous or discrete explanatory variables. The package provides several advantages: It minimizes deviations from representativeness in subsamples, interpolates between discrete levels of explanatory variables, and significantly reduces the required sample size compared to conventional norming per age group. cNORM enables graphical and analytical evaluation of model fit, accommodates a wide range of scales including those with negative and descending values, and even supports conventional norming. It generates norm tables including confidence intervals. It also includes methods for addressing representativeness issues through Iterative Proportional Fitting.

Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 1,236 times in the last 30 days. Now we’re talking! This work is officially 'heard of in academic circles', just like those wild research papers on synthetic bananas. The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 14 times.

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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 10,428 times in the last 365 days. The academic equivalent of having a dedicated subreddit. There are fans, and maybe even a few trolls! The day with the most downloads was Feb 20, 2025 with 108 downloads.

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