Optimizing information using the EM algorithm in item response theory

DOI10.1007/S10479-012-1204-4zbMATH OpenNoneOpenAlexW1978154058MaRDI QIDQ363608FDOQ363608

Authors Alexander Weissman 

Publication date 3 September 2013

Published in Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-012-1204-4

zbMATH Keywords

model selectionEM algorithmitem response theoryKullback-Leibler divergenceinformation theoryrelative entropystatistical estimationlatent trait theorymarginal maximum likelihood

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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