Extension of Lord-Wingersky Algorithm to Computing Test Score Distributions for Polytomous Items

Bradley A. Hanson

Date: February 1, 1994

Summary: This paper presents a generalization of the Lord-Wingersky algorithm to compute the distribution of a sum of scores on independently distributed polytomous items.

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