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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF GIBBS SAMPLING ALGORITHM FOR 2PNO IRT MODELS

Rahimi, Mona 01 August 2011 (has links)
Item response theory (IRT) is a newer and improved theory compared to the classical measurement theory. The fully Bayesian approach shows promise for IRT models. However, it is computationally expensive, and therefore is limited in various applications. It is important to seek ways to reduce the execution time and a suitable solution is the use of high performance computing (HPC). HPC offers considerably high computational power and can handle applications with high computation and memory requirements. In this work, we have applied two different parallelism methods to the existing fully Bayesian algorithm for 2PNO IRT models so that it can be run on a high performance parallel machine with less communication load. With our parallel version of the algorithm, the empirical results show that a speedup was achieved and the execution time was considerably reduced.

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