Noninformative priors for one-parameter item response models

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 99-115

  Ghosh, Malay ^a   Ghosh, Atalanta ^b   Chen, Ming Hui ^c   Agresti, Alan ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibbs sampling; Improper prior; Logit model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Primary 62F15; Probit model; Propriety; Rasch model; Secondary 62P15

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038591741     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(99)00201-3     Document Type: Article

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