Mirt: A multidimensional item response theory package for the R environment

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chalmers, R Philip ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bifactor; Confirmatory item factor analysis; Exploratory item factor analysis; Model estimation; Multidimensional IRT; R

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863321643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v048.i06     Document Type: Article

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