A class of multidimensional latent class IRT models for ordinal polytomous item responses

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 787-800

  Bacci, Silvia ^a   Bartolucci, Francesco ^a   Gnaldi, Michela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Graded response model; Hospital anxiety and depression scale; Partial credit model; Rating scale model; Unidimensionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893949653     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2013.827718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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