Accession Number:

ADA109141

Title:

Efficient Methods of Estimating the Operating Characteristics of Item Response Categories and Challenge to a New Model for the Multiple-Choice Item

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept. 1 May 77-30 Sep 81

Corporate Author:

TENNESSEE UNIV KNOXVILLE DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Personal Author(s):

• Samejima, Fumiko

Report Date:

1981-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

251.0

Abstract:

This is the final report for the research contract N00014-77-C-0360, which started on May 1, 1977, and ended on September 30, 1981. It systematizes major findings of the research, and gives perspectives and directions of future research. Author

Descriptors:

• *STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
• *PSYCHOLOGY
• MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION
• PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
• REGRESSION ANALYSIS
• POLYNOMIALS
• LEAST SQUARES METHOD
• CURVE FITTING
• BINARY NOTATION

Subject Categories:

• Psychology
• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE