On Latent Trait Estimation in Multidimensional Compensatory Item Response Models

Psychometrika

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 428-449

  Wang, Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; maximum likelihood estimation (MLE); multivariate weighted maximum likelihood estimation (MWLE); weighted maximum likelihood estimation (WLE)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 84930576366     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-013-9399-0     Document Type: Article

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