A Response Model for Multiple Choice Items
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 49 (4) , 501-519
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02302588
Abstract
We introduce an extended multivariate logistic response model for multiple choice items; this model includes several earlier proposals as special cases. The discussion includes a theoretical development of the model, a description of the relationship between the model and data, and a marginal maximum likelihood estimation scheme for the item parameters. Comparisons of the performance of different versions of the full model with more constrained forms corresponding to previous proposals are included, using likelihood ratio statistics and empirical data.Keywords
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