Optimizing information using the EM algorithm in item response theory
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EM algorithm; Item response theory; Latent trait theory; Statistical estimation; Marginal maximum likelihood; Kullback-Leibler divergence; Relative entropy; Information Theory; Model selection;All these keywords.
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