Goodness-of-Fit Assessment of Item Response Theory Models

Measurement

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 71-101

  Maydeu Olivares, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

categorical data; discrete data; latent class; maximum likelihood; model selection; ordinal factor analysis; polychoric correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885140493     PISSN: 15366367     EISSN: 15366359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15366367.2013.831680     Document Type: Article

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