Logistic positive exponent family of models: Virtue of asymmetric item characteristic curves

Psychometrika

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 319-335

  Samejima, Fumiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dichotomous responses; Item characteristic curves; Item response theory; Latent trait models; Logistic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034345445     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02296149     Document Type: Article

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