Bayesian Estimation of Multidimensional Item Response Models. A comparison of Analytic and Simulation Algorithms

This study compares the performance of two estimation algorithms of new usage, the Metropolis-Hastings Robins-Monro (MHRM) and the Hamiltonian MCMC (HMC), with two consolidated algorithms in the psychometric literature, the marginal likelihood via EM algorithm (MMLEM) and the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), in the estimation of multidimensional item response models of various levels of complexity. This paper evaluates the performance of parameter recovery via three simulation studies from a [...]

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