The impact of fallible item parameter estimates on latent trait recovery

DOI10.1007/s11336-009-9144-xzbMath1234.62156OpenAlexW2104208474WikidataQ34291540 ScholiaQ34291540MaRDI QIDQ985436

Ying Cheng, Ke-Hai Yuan

Publication date: 6 August 2010

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2976519

zbMATH Keywords

standard errorIRT scoringlatent trait estimationpseudo maximum likelihood (PML)upward correction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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Uses Software

• BILOG
• LOGIST

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