On bayesian analysis of multirater ordinal data: An application to automated essay grading

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 91, Issue 433, 1996, Pages 42-51

  Johnson, Valen E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Categorical data; Gibbs sampling; Hierarchical models; Latent structure models; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002799653     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1996.10476662     Document Type: Article

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