Accounting for individual differences in bradley-terry models by means of recursive partitioning

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-153

  Strobl, Carolin ^a   Wickelmaier, Florian ^b   Zeileis, Achim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bradley Terry Luce model; recursive partitioning; subject covariates

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955052335     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998609359791     Document Type: Article

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