Modeling of responses and response times with the package cirt

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Fox, Jean Paul ^a   Entink, Rinke Klein ^a   Van Der Linden, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FORTRAN; Hierarchical IRT model; MCMC; Response times

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249876003     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v020.i07     Document Type: Article

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