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Peer reviewedHoijtink, Herbert; Boomsma, Anne – Psychometrika, 1996
The quality of approximations to first- and second-order moments based on latent ability estimates is discussed. The ability estimates are based on the Rasch or the two-parameter logistic model, and true score theory is used to account for the fact that the basic quantities are estimates. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Bayesian Statistics, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Response Theory
