Constant latent odds-ratios models and the mantel-haenszel null hypothesis

Psychometrika

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 497-516

  Hessen, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DIF; IRT; Manifest monotonicity; Mantel Haenszel procedure; Odds ratio; Rasch model; Sufficient statistic; Weak item independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844436537     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-002-1040-6     Document Type: Article

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