The approach of power priors for ability estimation in IRT models

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 917-926

  Matteucci, Mariagiulia ^a   Veldkamp, Bernard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ability estimation; Gibbs sampler; Item response theory models; Power priors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939887814     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-014-0059-y     Document Type: Article

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