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Marginal maximum likelihood estimation for the one-parameter logistic model

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Two algorithms are described for marginal maximum likelihood estimation for the one-parameter logistic model. The more efficient of the two algorithms is extended to estimation for the linear logistic model. Numerical examples of both procedures are presented.

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Portions of this research were presented at the meeting of the Psychometric Society in Chapel Hill, N.C. in May, 1981. Thanks to R. Darrell Bock, Gerhard Fischer, and Paul Holland for helpful comments in the course of this research.

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Thissen, D. Marginal maximum likelihood estimation for the one-parameter logistic model. Psychometrika 47, 175–186 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02296273

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