This study investigates the impact of three prior distributions: matched, standard vague, and hierarchical in Bayesian estimation parameter recovery in two and one parameter models.
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This study investigates the impact of three prior distributions: matched, standard vague, and hierarchical in Bayesian estimation parameter recovery in two and one parameter models.
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Natesan, Prathiba; Nandakumar, Ratna; Minka, Tom & Rubright, Jonathan D.Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes,
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