Monte carlo tests of the rasch model based on scalability coefficients

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-111

  Christensen, Karl Bang ^a   Kreiner, Svend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 77950464773     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711009X424200     Document Type: Article

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