The Generalized Multilevel Facets Model for Longitudinal Data

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 231-255

  Hung, Lai Fa ^a   Wang, Wen Chung ^b  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

autocorrelation; facets models; item response theory; longitudinal data; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; multilevel models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859408806     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/1076998611402503     Document Type: Article

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