The statistical analysis of general processing tree models with the EM algorithm

DOI10.1007/BF02294263zbMath0826.62099OpenAlexW2081677860MaRDI QIDQ1897127

William H. Batchelder, Xiangen Hu

Publication date: 17 September 1995

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02294263

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalsEM algorithmFisher information matrixmultinomial processing tree modelslocal maximumpower divergence family of goodness-of-fit statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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