Measuring Variability and Change with an Item Response Model for Polytomous Variables

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-215

  Eid, Michael ^a   Hoffmann, Lore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interest; Item response theory; Measurement of change; Measurement of variability; Structural equation models of ordered variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032236507     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986023003193     Document Type: Article

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