Erratum to: Fitting an item response theory model with random item effects across groups by a variational approximation (Ann Oper Res, 10.1007/s10479-012-1181-7);Fitting an item response theory model with random item effects across groups by a variational approximation method

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 647-662

  Rijmen, Frank ^a   Jeon, Minjeong ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Item response theory; Mean field approximation; Random item effects; Variational techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879414645     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-013-1399-z     Document Type: Erratum

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