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Peer reviewedSwaminathan, Hariharan; Gifford, Janice A. – Psychometrika, 1986
A joint Bayesian estimation procedure for estimating parameters in the three-parameter logistic model is developed. Simulation studies show that the Bayesian procedure (1) ensures that the estimates stay in the parameter space and (2) produces better estimates than the joint maximum likelihood procedure. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Estimation (Mathematics), Goodness of Fit, Latent Trait Theory
