Person Reliability in Personality Measurement: An Item Response Theory Analysis

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 126-140

  Ferrando, Pere J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Expected a posteriori estimation; Item response theory; Person response curve; Person fit indices; Personality measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542351533     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621603260917     Document Type: Article

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