Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of a mixture item response theory model

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 278-306

  Cho, Sun Joo ^a   Cohen, Allan S ^b   Kim, Seock Ho ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; label switching; mixture item response theory model; model selection; use of priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872534417     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2011.603090     Document Type: Article

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