Empirical Bayes and Item-Clustering Effects in a Latent Variable Hierarchical Model
潜变量层级模型中的经验贝叶斯与题目聚类效应
Empirical Bayes regression procedures are often used in educational and psychological testing as extensions to latent variables models. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an important national survey using such procedures. The NAEP applies empirical Bayes methods to models from item response theory to calibrate student responses to questions of varying difficulty. Due partially to the limited computing technology that existed when NAEP was first…