Item response theory : parameter estimation techniques /

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Author / Creator:Baker, Frank B.
Edition:2. ed., rev. and expanded
Imprint:New York : M. Dekker, c2004.
Description:xx, 495 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language:English
Series:Statistics : textbooks and monographs ; 176
Statistics, textbooks and monographs ; v. 176.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5340333
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Other authors / contributors:Kim, Seock-Ho.
ISBN:0824758250
Notes:Accompanying CD-ROM contains "Basic and Java code."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-481) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The Item Characteristic Curve: Dichotomous Response
  • Estimating the Parameters of an Item Characteristic Curve
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Examinee Ability
  • Maximum Likelihood Procedures for Estimating Both Ability and Item Parameters
  • The Rasch Model
  • Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation and an EM Algorithm
  • Bayesian Parameter Estimation Procedures
  • The Graded Item Response
  • Nominally Scored Items
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
  • Parameter Estimation with Multiple Groups