Prior distributions for item parameters in IRT models

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 16-17, 2012, Pages 2944-2958

  Matteucci, Mariagiulia ^a   Mignani, Stefania ^a   Veldkamp, Bernard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Item response theory models; MCMC estimation; Prior distributions; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; COMPLEX MODEL; GIBBS SAMPLERS; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; MODEL ESTIMATION; PARAMETER RECOVERY; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; PRIOR INFORMATION; REGRESSION TREES; SMALL SAMPLES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FORESTRY;

ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84866012877     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2011.639973     Document Type: Article

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