Author: Ji Xiaohui
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Keywords: shanghai, series, finance
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9812408800
ISBN-13: 9789812408808

Shanghai was once the international financial center of the Far East. Today, a national development strategy has been put in place that will once again transform it into a modern international financial center. This book presents the reader with a comprehensive and objective account of the current status of Shanghai’s finance industry including such areas as banking, securities futures, insurance, inter-bank lending and borrowing, bonds, foreign exchange, the stock exchange, futures, and gold.

Authors:Howard Wainer, Eric T. Bradlow, Xiaohui Wang,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: applications, theory, response, testlet
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-03-19
List price: $38.99
ISBN-10: 052168126X
ISBN-13: 9780521681261

The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory) to models that focus on individual test items (item response theory) to models that use small groups of items (testlets) as the fungible unit from which tests are constructed and scored (testlet response theory, or TRT). In this book, the inventors of TRT trace the history of this evolution and explain the character of modern TRT. Written for researchers and professionals in statistics, psychometrics, and educational psychology, the first part off

Authors:Howard Wainer, Eric T. Bradlow, Xiaohui Wang,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: applications, theory, response, testlet
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2007-03-19
List price: $101.99
ISBN-10: 0521862728
ISBN-13: 9780521862721

The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory) to models that focus on individual test items (item response theory) to models that use small groups of items (testlets) as the fungible unit from which tests are constructed and scored (testlet response theory, or TRT). In this book, the inventors of TRT trace the history of this evolution and explain the character of modern TRT. Written for researchers and professionals in statistics, psychometrics, and educational psychology, the first part off