A strong true-score theory, with applications

Psychometrika - Tập 30 - Trang 239-270 - 1965
Frederic M. Lord1,2
1Educational Testing Service USA
2Princeton University, USA

Tóm tắt

A “strong” mathematical model for the relation between observed scores and true scores is developed. This model can be used The model has been tested empirically, using it to estimate bivariate distributions from univariate distributions, with good results, as checked by chi-square tests.

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