An explanatory differential item functioning (DIF) model by the WinBUG 1.4

Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 449-458

  Chaimongkol, Saengla ^a   Huffer, Fred W ^b   Kamata, Akihito ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Item response theory; Multilevel logistic regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250813676     PISSN: 01253395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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