I am sorry for the vague comment and I am also very happy that you have asked for my further clarification. Please disregard my previous comment about ……. A clearer comment is……
I hope my clarification can clear up the doubts and be of some help to your revision. If there is any further questions, please let me know. And thank you again for your email!
11月7日
给 de la Torre教授再次发邮件询问:
We have written a paper about IRT. In this paper, we proposed a new IRT model named the four-parameter Graded-Response Model, but we haven't found a way to achieve the method of its parameter estimation yet. Is it possible to be published on JEM? Thank you.
他的答复是:
I think, in addition to estimation, you need to justify why such a model is needed.
11月11日
APM的审稿人叫我引用一篇论文 Cheng & Chang (2007),里面提到了the dual information method。但是我搜到的论文里并没有这个内容。
于是我给编辑部发邮件,请审稿人指出那篇论文的标题。
12个小时以后得到答复,原来是一篇会议论文,在GOOGLE根本搜不到的。我先前搜到的Cheng & Chang (2007)不是审稿人要我引用的那篇。
审稿人还说:I am fully aware that this is a conference paper, so if the authors have difficulty in obtaining a copy of this paper, they may write to Ying (Allison) Cheng.