Copula functions for residual dependency

Psychometrika

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-411

  Braeken, Johan ^a   Tuerlinckx, Francis ^a   De Boeck, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Copula; Item response theory; Local item dependency

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448956087     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-007-9005-4     Document Type: Article

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