Empirical histograms in item response theory with ordinal data

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-87

  Woods, Carol M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EM; Empirical histogram; Expectation Maximation; IRT; Item response theory; Marginal maximum likelihood; MML; Nonnormality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846071462     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164406288163     Document Type: Article

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