On Holland's Dutch identity conjecture

Psychometrika

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 375-392

  Zhang, Jinming ^a   Stout, William ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dutch identity; IRT; Item response theory; Manifest probabilities; Posterior distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031504467     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294557     Document Type: Article

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