Abstract
The nominal categories model (Bock, 1972), with its various specializations and extensions, comprises a large family of functions suitable for statistical description of individual qualitative behavior in response to identified stimuli. The models specify the probability of a person’s response in one of several mutually exclusive and exhaustive categories as a function of stimulus characteristics and person attributes. Bock’s nominal model, like Birnbaum’s (1968) binary item response model, is an elaboration of a primitive, formal model for choice between two alternatives.
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Bock, R.D. (1997). The Nominal Categories Model. In: van der Linden, W.J., Hambleton, R.K. (eds) Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2691-6_2
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