Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation of normal ogive IRT models in MATLAB

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Sheng, Yanyan ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian DIC; Gelman Rubin R; Gibbs sampling; Item response theory; MATLAB; MCMC; Unidimensional normal orgive models

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749152614     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v025.i08     Document Type: Article

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