Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation of item parameters for the generalized graded unfolding model

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 216-232

  De La Torre, Jimmy ^a   Stark, Stephan ^b   Chernyshenko, Oleksandr S ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Estimation; Ideal point models; IRT; MCMC; MML; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646178269     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621605282772     Document Type: Article

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