Higher-Order Item Response Models for Hierarchical Latent Traits

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 619-637

  Huang, Hung Yu ^a   Wang, Wen Chung ^b   Chen, Po Hsi ^c   Su, Chi Ming ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayesian; hierarchical models; item response theory; MCMC; multidimensional item response theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884686861     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621613488819     Document Type: Article

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