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The\npackage adds what these packages do not provide: standard\nerrors of step discriminations based on the full observed\ninformation, step-level Wald tests, and score tests with\nmodification indices and expected parameter changes for moving\ndown the model ladder saturated TPPCM -> product form ->\ngeneralized partial credit model -> partial credit model,\nlimited-information fit statistics (the M2 statistic, root mean\nsquare error of approximation, standardized root mean squared\nresidual, comparative fit index and Tucker-Lewis index;\nMaydeu-Olivares and Joe (2006) )\nfor any step design, step contributions to the item\ninformation, and tests of differential step functioning across\ngroups: per-step Lagrange multiplier tests from one multigroup\nfit (Glas (1998)\n),\nwith the generalized score test of Boos (1992)\n, likelihood ratio tests\nwith configural, metric, scalar and partial multigroup designs,\nscore-based tests (Merkle and Zeileis (2013)\n) and model-based trees\n(Zeileis, Hothorn and Hornik (2008)\n). 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