A BAYESIAN RANDOM EFFECTS MODEL FOR TESTLETS

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 1998, Issue 1, 1998, Pages i-27

  Bradlow, Eric T ^b   Wainer, Howard ^b   Wang, Xiaohui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 80054521024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1998.tb01752.x     Document Type: Article

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