Likelihood inference on the underlying structure of IRT models

Psychometrika

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 31-43

  Bartolucci, Francesco ^a   Forcina, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chi bar squared distribution; Marginal parameterizations; Nonparametric mixture models; Order restricted Inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244461368     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-001-0934-z     Document Type: Article

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