文档介绍：Statistical Modeling of the National Assessment
of Educational Progress
Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Murray Aitkin • Irit Aitkin
Statistical Modeling of the
National Assessment of
Educational Progress
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Murray Aitkin Irit Aitkin
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne University of Melbourne
Melbourne Victoria 3010 Melbourne Victoria 3010
Australia Australia
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ISBN 978-1-4419-9936-8 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-9937-5
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Preface
This book is a description of research and data analysis carried out by the authors
with substantial funding from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), divisions of the . Department of
Education, in partnership with the American Institutes for Res