On the Bayesian Nonparametric Generalization of IRT-Type Models

Psychometrika

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 385-409

  San Martín, Ernesto ^a   Jara, Alejandro ^a   Rolin, Jean Marie ^b   Mouchart, Michel ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bayesian consistency; Bayesian identification; Dirichlet processes; P lya tree processes; Rasch model; Rasch Poisson counts model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959379702     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-011-9213-9     Document Type: Article

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