Item Screening in Graphical Loglinear Rasch Models

Psychometrika

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 228-256

  Kreiner, Svend ^a   Christensen, Karl Bang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

chain graph models; differential item functioning; global Markov properties; graphical Rasch models; local dependence; loglinear Rasch models; Mantel Haenszel analysis; partial gamma coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954632529     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-011-9203-y     Document Type: Article

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