Empirically indistinguishable multidimensional IRT and locally dependent unidimensional item response models

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 395-416

  Ip, Edward Haksing ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953645799     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711009X466835     Document Type: Article

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