Fitting and Testing Conditional Multinormal Partial Credit Models

Psychometrika

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 693-709

  Hessen, David J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

factor analysis; measurement invariance; multi group model; multivariate normal distribution; partial credit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867859066     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-012-9277-1     Document Type: Article

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