Palliser Furniture Palliser Furniture Palliser Furniture Upholstery Ltd. is a furniture manufacturing company headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Palliser Furniture is a family-owned company. Palliser Furniture manufactures and distributes upholstery furniture products throughout Canada, Mexico and United States. Palliser Furniture manufactures all types of upholstery, stationary, motion, recliners, home theatre, and chairs over 300 leathers and fabrics. In 2015 the former president Cary Benson was promoted CEO, succeeding Art DeFehr. In 1944, Abram Albert DeFehr, a Russian-born immigrant to Canada, began making wooden pieces in the basement of his Winnipeg home. Within a few years, the business moved from the basement into
Differential item functioning Differential item functioning Differential item functioning (DIF) is a statistical characteristic of an item that shows the extent to which the item might be measuring different abilities for members of separate subgroups. Average item scores for subgroups having the same overall score on the test are compared to determine whether the item is measuring in essentially the same way for all subgroups. The presence of DIF requires review and judgment, and it does not necessarily indicate the presence of bias. DIF analysis provides an indication of unexpected behavior of items on a test. An item does not display DIF if