Two interpretations of the discrimination parameter

Psychometrika

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 629-650

  Tuerlinckx, Francis ^a   De Boeck, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diffusion model; Item discrimination; Item response theory; Race model; Response times; Two parameter logistic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646425038     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-000-0810-3     Document Type: Article

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