A note on the connection between knowledge structures and latent class models

Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 63-67

  Ünlü, Ali ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Careless error; Knowledge space theory; Latent class analysis; Lucky guess; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954574110     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000023     Document Type: Article

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