Remarks on the identifiability of thurstonian ranking models: Case V, Case III, or neither?

Psychometrika

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 233-240

  Tsai, Rung Ching ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Identifiability; Ranking data; Thurstonian models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034345720     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294376     Document Type: Article

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