Estimating the Multilevel Rasch Model: With the lme4 Package

Traditional Rasch estimation of the item and student parameters via marginal maximum likelihood, joint maximum likelihood or conditional maximum likelihood, assume individuals in clustered settings are uncorrelated and items within a test that share a grouping structure are also uncorrelated. These...

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Main Authors: Harold Doran, Douglas Bates, Paul Bliese, Maritza Dowling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2007-02-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v20/i02/paper