Marginal maximum likelihood estimation of item response models in R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Johnson, Matthew S ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Gauss Hermite quadrature; Item response theory; Marginal maximum likelihood; Mixed effects models; Partial credit model; Two parameter logistic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249882216     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v020.i10     Document Type: Article

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