Fitting polytomous rasch models in SAS

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 407-417

  Christensen, Karl Bang ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

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ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 33845370496     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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