Item response theory for longitudinal data: Item and population ability parameters estimation

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Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-123

  Tavares, Heliton R ^a   Andrade, Dalton F ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Binary response; Covariance structures; Logistic model; Multivariate latent distribution; Repeated measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646682831     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02595420     Document Type: Article

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