Smoothing Methods for Estimating Test Score Distributions

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• Publication year

  1991

• Venue

  Journal of Educational Measurement

• Publication date

  1991-09-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Education

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1745-3984.1991.TB00358.X
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