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Unless you can prove your approximation is as good as my exact solution, I am not interested in your approximation. R. Daryl Bock[1]
Unless you can show me your exact solution is better than my approximation, I am not interested in your exact solution. Benjamin D. Wright[2]
Rule of Thumb Estimates for Rasch Standard Errors
The asymptotic standard error for Marginal Maximum Likelihood estimates of the Rasch difficulty d or ability b parameters is:
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[1] I first applied to the University of Chicago because Prof. Bock was there.
[2] There was a reason I ended up working with Prof. Wright.