A similarity-based smoothing approach to nondimensional item analysis

Psychometrika

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 323-339

  Ramsay, J O ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

item response theory; logistic normal distribution; nearest neighbor smoothing; nonparametric density estimation; nonparametric item analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844525370     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: 18600980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294378     Document Type: Article

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