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Using PROC LOGISTIC to Estimate the Rasch Model by Pan and Chen

http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/342-2011.pdf

Can this be right?  If right, it helps reduce the computational demand off the procedure.   Page 4:

"When thousands of persons take a test, the procedure takes a long time to estimate the parameters. It is well known that the Rasch model gives the same parameter estimates for each person who receives the same total score. So, variable ‘person’ is able to be replaced with variable ‘total’ when all examinees answer all items as shown by Nord (2008). After the model is fit, the estimate of the parameter for each person is equal to the estimate of the parameter of the total score corresponding to the person’s total score. The third code example and its output are shown as follows:"

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Rasch data

data raschdata;
input
ID $ 1-10
Q01 11 Q02 12 Q03 13 Q04 14 Q05 15 Q06 16 Q07 17 Q08 18 Q09 19 Q10 20
Q11 21 Q12 22 Q13 23 Q14 24 Q15 25 Q16 26 Q17 27 Q18 28;
cards ;
Richard M 111111100000000000
Tracie F 111111111100000000
Walter M 111111111001000000
Blaise M 111100101000000000
Ron M 111111111100000000
William M 111111111100000000
Susan F 111111111111101000
Linda F 111111111100000000
Kim F 111111111100000000
Carol F 111111111110000000
Pete M 111011111000000000
Brenda F 111110101100000000
Mike M 111110011111000000
Zula F 111111111110000000
Frank M 111111111111100000
Dorothy F 111111111010000000
Rod M 111101111100000000
Britton F 111111111100100000
Janet F 111111111000000000
David M 111111111100100000
Thomas M 111111111110100000
Betty F 111111111111000000
Bert M 111111111100110000
Rick M 111111111110100110
Don M 111011000000000000
Barbara F 111111111100000000
Adam M 111111100000000000
Audrey F 111111111010000000
Anne F 111111001110010000
Lisa F 111111111000000000
James M 111111111100000000
Joe M 111111111110000000
Martha F 111100100100000000
Elsie F 111111111101010000
Helen F 111000000000000000
;
run;

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Running Winsteps from within SAS

data rasch;
input line $ 1-75;
cards;
&INST
TITLE='KNOX CUBE TEST'
NI=18
ITEM1=11
NAME1=1
PERSON=KID
ITEM=TAP
PFILE=EXAMPLE1.PF
IFILE=EXAMPLE1.IF
&END
1-4
2-3
1-2-4
1-3-4
2-1-4
3-4-1
1-4-3-2
1-4-2-3
1-3-2-4
2-4-3-1
1-3-1-2-4
1-3-2-4-3
1-4-3-2-4
1-4-2-3-4-1
1-3-2-4-1-3
1-4-2-3-1-4
1-4-3-1-2-4
4-1-3-4-2-1-4
END NAMES
;

data rasch;set rasch;
file "C:\TEMP\winstep.txt";
put (line) (100.0);
run;
option xwait xsync;
x "start C:\BIGSTEPS\BIGSTEPS.EXE C:\TEMP\winstep.txt C:\TEMP\output.txt";