Sufficiency and conditional estimation of person parameters in the Polytomous Rasch Model

Psychometrika

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 292-308

  Andrich, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Person estimation; Polytomous Rasch model; Pseudo likelihood; Sufficiency; Test equating

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953705446     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-010-9154-8     Document Type: Article

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