Investigating the Impact of Uncertainty About Item Parameters on Ability Estimation

Psychometrika

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-118

  Zhang, Jinming ^a   Xie, Minge ^b   Song, Xiaolan ^c   Lu, Ting ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JP Morgan Chase & Co   (United States)

Author keywords

bias; item response theory (IRT); maximum likelihood estimator (MLE); measurement error; weighted likelihood estimator (WLE)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952252550     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-010-9192-2     Document Type: Article

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