Asymptotic properties of the Bayes and pseudo Bayes estimators of ability in item response theory
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IRT; Asymptotic cumulants; Bayes modal; Mean square error; Jeffreys prior; Bias; Higher-order asymptotic variance; Model misspecification;All these keywords.
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