The asymptotic posterior normality of the latent trait for polytomous IRt models

Psychometrika

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 445-463

  Chang, Hua Hua ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

And item category response function; Consistency; Efficiency; Fisher information; Item response theory; Kullback Leibler information; Ordered categories; Polytomous item

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030490593     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294549     Document Type: Article

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