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Sen, Sedat – International Journal of Testing, 2018
Recent research has shown that over-extraction of latent classes can be observed in the Bayesian estimation of the mixed Rasch model when the distribution of ability is non-normal. This study examined the effect of non-normal ability distributions on the number of latent classes in the mixed Rasch model when estimated with maximum likelihood…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
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Essid, Hedi; Ouellette, Pierre; Vigeant, Stephane – Economics of Education Review, 2010
The objective of this paper is to measure the efficiency of high schools in Tunisia. We use a statistical data envelopment analysis (DEA)-bootstrap approach with quasi-fixed inputs to estimate the precision of our measure. To do so, we developed a statistical model serving as the foundation of the data generation process (DGP). The DGP is…
Descriptors: High Schools, Intervals, Statistical Data, Foreign Countries