Empirical validation of DIMTEST on nonnormal ability distributions

Journal of Educational Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 355-368

  Nandakumar, Ratna ^a   Yu, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 0030515333     PISSN: 00220655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1996.tb00497.x     Document Type: Article

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