README for Replication Materials on 

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# Mauerer, I. & Tutz, G. (2025). 
# "An Ordinal Item Response Model for Understanding Attitudes". 
# Forthcoming Sociological Methods and Research. 
# doi: 10.1177/00491241251403078
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### Description

This README file accompanies the replication materials for replicating the empirical analyses.

The analysis was performed using R version 4.5.1 with a 64-bit operating system. 


### Contents

Data.RData: contains the data sets. See also Appendix A in the Online Supplement.

Replication.R: contains the commands to run the models and create the tables and figures.