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Direct linkSinharay, Sandip; Dorans, Neil J.; Grant, Mary C.; Blew, Edwin O. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2009
Test administrators often face the challenge of detecting differential item functioning (DIF) with samples of size smaller than that recommended by experts. A Bayesian approach can incorporate, in the form of a prior distribution, existing information on the inference problem at hand, which yields more stable estimation, especially for small…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Computation, Bayesian Statistics, Data
