Higher-order asymptotics and its application to testing the equality of the examinee ability over two sets of items

DOI10.1007/S11336-018-9627-8MaRDI QIDQ2331177zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sandip Sinharay, Jens Ledet Jensen

Publication date 25 October 2019

Published in Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-018-9627-8

zbMATH Keywords

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Paired and multiple comparisons; multiple testing (62J15) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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