Investigating the impact of uncertainty about item parameters on ability estimation

DOI10.1007/S11336-010-9192-2MaRDI QIDQ629185zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jinming Zhang, Xiaolan Song, Ting Lu, Minge Xie

Publication date 8 March 2011

Published in Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-010-9192-2

zbMATH Keywords

biasitem response theory (IRT)maximum likelihood estimator (MLE)measurement errorweighted likelihood estimator (WLE)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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• Unbiased estimators of ability parameters, of their variance, and of their parallel-forms reliability
• The impact of fallible item parameter estimates on latent trait recovery

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Uses Software

• PARSCALE
• BILOG

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