Estimating Johnson curve population distributions in multilog

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-64

  Van Den Oord, Edwin J C G ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Item response theory; Johnson curves; Latent trait; MULTILOG; Nonnormality

Indexed keywords

EID: 11344268492     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621604269791     Document Type: Article

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