An improved CML estimation procedure for the Rasch model with item response data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 407-416

  Sheng, Xiaoming ^a   Carriere K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic properties; Conditional likelihood ratio test; Conditional maximum likelihood; Polychotomous Rasch model; Simultaneous estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OBSERVATION; SIMULATION; THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0037083257     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1026     Document Type: Article

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