Generalized Full-Information Item Bifactor Analysis

Psychological Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-248

  Cai, Li ^a   Yang, Ji Seung ^a   Hansen, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential item functioning; Hierarchical factor model; Item factor analysis; Item response theory; Multidimensional irt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 80052860764     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023350     Document Type: Article

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