Latent variable techniques for categorical data

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-161

  Lancaster, Gillian ^a   Green, Mick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes estimate; Item response analysis; Latent variable; Linear score; Linear score model; Log bilinear model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141791140     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014886619553     Document Type: Article

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