Detection and diagnosis of person misfit from patterns of summed polytomous item scores

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 599-619

  Emons, Wilco H M ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Item response theory; Person fit analysis; Polytomous item response models; Reverse worded items; Traitedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350532353     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621609334378     Document Type: Article

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