The Rasch Model for Dichotomous Items

Rasch Models in Health

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5-26

  Kreiner, Svend ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dichotomous items; Guttman errors; Item characteristic curves; Item response theory (IRT); Person covariates; Probability; Psychometry; Rasch model; Statistics; Test characteristic curve (TCC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886854685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118574454.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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