Conditional Statistical Inference with Multistage Testing Designs

Psychometrika

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-84

  Zwitser, Robert J ^a   Maris, Gunter ^a,b  

^a Cito group   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adaptive testing; conditional maximum likelihood; item response theory; multistage testing; parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888774451     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-013-9369-6     Document Type: Article

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