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Peer reviewedde Leeuw, Jan; Verhelst, Norman – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1986
Maximum likelihood procedures are presented for a general model to unify the various models and techniques that have been proposed for item analysis. Unconditional maximum likelihood estimation, proposed by Wright and Haberman, and conditional maximum likelihood estimation, proposed by Rasch and Andersen, are shown as important special cases. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Analysis, Latent Trait Theory
