Using Stan to implement Bayesian parameter estimation of IRT models

DOI10.16357/J.CNKI.ISSN1000-5862.2020.03.12MaRDI QIDQ3385863zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Siyang Liu, Yan Cai

Publication date 14 January 2021

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.16357/J.CNKI.ISSN1000-5862.2020.03.12

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian estimationHamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithmitem response theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Theory of programming languages (68N15)

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• Real-time Bayesian parameter estimation for item response models
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• Bayesian estimation of multidimensional polytomous item response theory models with Q-matrices using Stan

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Uses Software

• rstan
• R
• Stan

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