A truncated-probit item response model for estimating psychophysical thresholds

Psychometrika

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 603-618

  Morey, Richard D ^a   Rouder, Jeffrey N ^b   Speckman, Paul L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; IRT; Item response theory; MAC; Mass at chance; Psychometrics; Psychophysics; Threshold; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949269591     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-009-9122-3     Document Type: Article

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