On the Relationships Between Jeffreys Modal and Weighted Likelihood Estimation of Ability Under Logistic IRT Models

Psychometrika

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-169

  Magis, David ^a,b   Raîche, Gilles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian modal estimation; Jeffreys' prior; logistic model; weighted likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84155180924     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-011-9233-5     Document Type: Article

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