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The development of nonparametric approaches to psychometric and sociometric measurement dates back to the days before the establishment of regular item response theory (IRT). It has its roots in the early manifestations of scalogram analysis (Guttman, 1950), latent structure analysis (Lazarsfeld, 1950), and latent trait theory (Lord, 1953).
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Mokken, R.J. (1997). Nonparametric Models for Dichotomous Responses. 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_20
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