Estimation of models in a Rasch family for polytomous items and multiple latent variables

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1-36

  Anderson, Carolyn J ^a   Li, Zhushan ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conditionally specified models; Log linear by linear association models; Logistic regression; Multinomial logistic regression; Pseudo likelihood estimation; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249870730     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v020.i06     Document Type: Article

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