
By Anna Doebler, Philipp Doebler and Heinz Holling
A new family of item response theory models for count data, based on item characteristic curves (ICCs) of binary models, is presented. These models assume a Poisson distribution for the observed scores where the mean is given by the product of a speed parameter and an ICC, for example, the curve of the one- or two-parameter logistic model.
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