Ramsay-curve item response theory for the three-parameter logistic item response model

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 447-465

  Woods, Carol M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3PL model; Empirical histogram; Normality assumption; Ramsay curve; RC IRT

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249100954     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621607308014     Document Type: Article

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