The influence of the presence of deviant item score patterns on the power of a person-fit statistic

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 141-154

  Meijer, Rob R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aberrance detection; Appropriateness measurement; Nonparametric item response theory; Person fit; Person fit statistic ZU3

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030494345     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014662169602000204     Document Type: Article

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