本論文探討當自變數存在測量誤差時，羅吉斯迴歸模型的估計問題，並將此結果應用在電腦化適性測驗中的線上校準問題。在變動長度電腦化測驗的假設下，我們證明了估計量的強收斂性。試題反應理論被廣泛地使用在電腦化適性測驗上，其假設受試者在試題的表現情形與本身的能力，可以透過試題特徵曲線加以詮釋，羅吉斯迴歸模式是最常見的試題反應模式。藉由適性測驗的施行，考題的選取可以依據不同受試者，選擇最適合的題目。因此，相較於傳統測驗而言，在適性測驗中，題目的消耗量更為快速。在題庫的維護與管理上，新試題的補充與試題校準便為非常重要的工作。線上試題校準意指在線上測驗進行中，同時進行試題校準。因此，受試者的能力估計會存在測量誤差。從統計的觀點，線上校準面臨的困難，可以解釋為在非線性模型下，當自變數有測量誤差時的實驗設計問題。我們利用序貫設計降低測量誤差，得到更精確的估計，相較於傳統的試題校準，可以節省更多的時間及成本。我們利用處理測量誤差的技巧，進一步應用序貫設計的方法，處理在線上校準中，受試者能力存在測量誤差的問題。 / In this dissertation, we focus on the estimate in logistic regression models when the independent variables are subject to some measurement errors. The problem of this dissertation is motivated by online calibration in Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT). We apply the measurement error model techniques and adaptive sequential design methodology to the online calibration problem of CAT. We prove that the estimates of item parameters are strongly consistent under the variable length CAT setup. In an adaptive testing scheme, examinees are presented with different sets of items chosen from a pre-calibrated item pool. Thus the speed of attrition in items will be very fast, and replenishing of item pool is essential for CAT. The online calibration scheme in CAT refers to estimating the item parameters of new, un-calibrated items by presenting them to examinees during the course of their ability testing together with previously calibrated items. Therefore, the estimated latent trait levels of examinees are used as the design points for estimating the parameter of the new items, and naturally these designs, the estimated latent trait levels, are subject to some estimating errors. Thus the problem of the online calibration under CAT setup can be formulated as a sequential estimation problem with measurement errors in the independent variables, which are also chosen sequentially. Item Response Theory (IRT) is the most commonly used psychometric model in CAT, and the logistic type models are the most popular models used in IRT based tests. That's why the nonlinear design problem and the nonlinear measurement error models are involved. Sequential design procedures proposed here can provide more accurate estimates of parameters, and are more efficient in terms of sample size (number of examinees used in calibration). In traditional calibration process in paper-and-pencil tests, we usually have to pay for the examinees joining the pre-test calibration process. In online calibration, there will be less cost, since we are able to assign new items to the examinees during the operational test. Therefore, the proposed procedures will be cost-effective as well as time-effective.

Les Processus Markoviens Déterministes par Morceaux (PDMP) ont été introduits dans la littérature par M.H.A Davis comme une classe générale de modèles stochastiques. Les PDMP forment une famille de processus markoviens qui décrivent une trajectoire déterministe ponctuée par des sauts aléatoires. Dans une première partie, les PDMP sont utilisés pour calculer des probabilités d'événements redoutés pour un cas-test de la fiabilité dynamique (le réservoir chauffé) par deux méthodes numériques différentes : la première est basée sur la résolution du système différentieldécrivant l'évolution physique du réservoir et la seconde utilise le calcul de l'espérancede la fonctionnelle d'un PDMP par un système d'équations intégro-différentielles.Dans la seconde partie, nous proposons une méthode numérique pour approcher lafonction valeur du problème d'arrêt optimal pour un PDMP. Notre approche estbasée sur la quantification de la position après saut et le temps inter-sauts de lachaîne de Markov sous-jacente au PDMP, et la discréetisation en temps adaptée à latrajectoire du processus. Ceci nous permet d'obtenir une vitesse de convergence denotre schéma numérique et de calculer un temps d'arrêt ε-optimal. / Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMP's) have been introduced inthe literature by M.H.A. Davis as a general class of stochastics models. PDMP's area family of Markov processes involving deterministic motion punctuated by randomjumps. In a first part, PDMP's are used to compute probabilities of top eventsfor a case-study of dynamic reliability (the heated tank system) with two di#erentmethods : the first one is based on the resolution of the differential system giving thephysical evolution of the tank and the second uses the computation of the functionalof a PDMP by a system of integro-differential equations. In the second part, wepropose a numerical method to approximate the value function for the optimalstopping problem of a PDMP. Our approach is based on quantization of the post-jump location and inter-arrival time of the Markov chain naturally embedded in thePDMP, and path-adapted time discretization grids. It allows us to derive boundsfor the convergence rate of the algorithm and to provide a computable ε-optimalstopping time.