An order-preserving property of the maximum likelihood estimates for the Rasch model

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-96

  Bertoli Barsotti, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrangement increasing functions; Conditional maximum likelihood; Maximum likelihood estimation; Monotone likelihood ratio; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037211928     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00351-6     Document Type: Article

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