Development and calibration of an item response model that incorporates response time

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 323-339

  Wang, Tianyou ^a   Hanson, Bradley A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CTB MCGRAW HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Item response theory (IRT); Parameter estimation; Response time modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944474902     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621605275984     Document Type: Review

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