Unbiased estimators of ability parameters, of their variance, and of their parallel-forms reliability

DOI10.1007/BF02294018zbMATH Open0534.62080MaRDI QIDQ790573FDOQ790573

Authors: Frederic M. Lord 

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihoodvarianceitem response theorylatent trait theoryunbiased estimatorsability parametersparallel-forms reliabilitytrue score

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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