Analysis of local dependence and multidimensionality in graphical loglinear rasch models

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1239-1276

  Kreiner, Svend ^a   Christensen, Karl B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Differential item functioning; Graphical Rasch models; Local independence; Loglinear Rasch models; Multidimensionality; Uniform local dependence and DIF

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DIFFERENTIAL FUNTIONING; GRAPHICAL RASH MODELS; LOCAL INDEPENDENCE; LOGLINEAR RASH MODELS; MULDIMENSIONALITY; UNIFORM LOCAL DEPENDENCE AND DIF;

STATISTICS;

EID: 2342614828     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120030148     Document Type: Review

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