Empirical bayes and item-clustering effects in a latent variable hierarchical model: A case study from the national assessment of educational progress

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 458, 2002, Pages 409-419

  Scott, Steven L ^a   Ip, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational testing; Gibbs sampler; Item response theory; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Multinomial logistic regression; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035998840     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214502760046961     Document Type: Article

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