Extended rasch modeling: The eRm package for the application of IRT models in R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Mair, Patrick ^a   Hatzinger, Reinhold ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

CML estimation; LLTM; LPCM; LRSM; PCM; Rasch model; RSM

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249889627     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v020.i09     Document Type: Article

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