A skew item response model

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 861-892

  Bazán, Jorge L ^a   Branco, Márcia D ^a   Bolfarine, Heleno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Item response theory; Link skew probit; Probit normal model; Skew normal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847692477     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/06-BA128     Document Type: Article

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