Theory and method for constrained estimation in structural equation models with incomplete data 1

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-270

  Tang, Man Lai ^a   Bentler, Peter M ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained maximum likelihood estimation; EM algorithm; Missing data; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

CONSTRAINED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; COVARIANCE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; EM ALGORITHM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0032069216     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(98)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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