A Remark on Bower's Estimate for the One-Element Markov Learning Model
Paul W. Holland · Psychometrika · 1968
For the case of the one-element Markov learning model for which the guessing parameter p is assumed known the efficiency of Bower's method of moments estimator c+ for the learning parameter, c, is found. It seems that although c+ is not efficient, for some practical value of c it is not very inefficient. If p and c are small, ĉ, the maximum likelihood estimate, and c+ have approximately the same first term when expanded in powers of p.