New developments in Mokken scale analysis in R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages

  van der Ark, L Andries ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Invariant item ordering; Mokken scale analysis; Nonparametric item response theory; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863301054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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