Chapter 1 is concerned with confidence interval construction for the mean of a long-range dependent time series. It is well known that the moving block bootstrap method produces an inconsistent estimator of thedistribution of the normalized sample mean when its limiting distribution is not...

The identifiability and estimability of the parameters for the Unified Cognitive/IRT Model are studies. A calibration procedure for the Unified Model is then proposed. This procedure uses the marginal maximum likelihood estimation approach and utilizes the EM algorithm. It differs from other...