Data-Driven Learning of Q-Matrix

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 548-564

  Liu, Jingchen ^a   Xu, Gongjun ^a   Ying, Zhiliang ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive diagnosis; DINA model; latent traits; model selection; multidimensionality; optimization; self learning; statistical estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866396675     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621612456591     Document Type: Article

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