A Bayesian semiparametric item response model with dirichlet process priors

Psychometrika

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-393

  Miyazaki, Kei ^a   Hoshino, Takahiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process mixture; Item characteristic curves; Item response theory; Semiparametric models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895901434     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-008-9108-6     Document Type: Article

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