Multilevel IRT modeling in practice with the package mlirt

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1-16

  Fox, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FORTRAN; Item response data; MCMC; Multilevel IRT model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249867716     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v020.i05     Document Type: Article

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