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Direct linkPaek, Insu; Lin, Zhongtian; Chalmers, Robert Philip – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
To reduce the chance of Heywood cases or nonconvergence in estimating the 2PL or the 3PL model in the marginal maximum likelihood with the expectation-maximization (MML-EM) estimation method, priors for the item slope parameter in the 2PL model or for the pseudo-guessing parameter in the 3PL model can be used and the marginal maximum a posteriori…
Descriptors: Models, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Intervals
