A COMPARISON OF TWO MODELS FOR COGNITIVE DIAGNOSIS

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2004, Issue 1, 2004, Pages i-33

  Yan, Duanli ^a   Almond, Russell ^a   Mislevy, Robert ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

bayesian network; binary skills model; cognitive diagnosis; fusion model; latent class models; markov chain monte carlo (MCMC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849094819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2004.tb01929.x     Document Type: Article

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