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Peer reviewedHarwell, Michael R.; Baker, Frank B. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1991
Previous work on the mathematical and implementation details of the marginalized maximum likelihood estimation procedure is extended to encompass the marginalized Bayesian procedure for estimating item parameters of R. J. Mislevy (1986) and to communicate this procedure to users of the BILOG computer program. (SLD)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics), Item Response Theory
