Multilevel Item Response Models: An Approach to Errors in Variables Regression

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-76

  Adams, Raymond J ^a   Wilson, Mark ^b   Wu, Margaret ^a  

^a Australian Cncl Educ Research   (Australia)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Item response models; Measurement error; Multilevel models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031517325     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986022001047     Document Type: Article

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