Higher-order latent trait models for cognitive diagnosis

Psychometrika

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 333-353

  De La Torre, Jimmy ^a,c   Douglas, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive diagnosis; Item response theory; Latent class model; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344281031     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02295640     Document Type: Article

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