The Effect of Sample Size for Estimating Rasch/IRT Parameters with Dichotomous Items

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-61

  Stone, Mark ^a   Yumoto, Futoshi ^b  

^a ADLER SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stoelting Company

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; SAMPLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEMORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0442326607     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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