Bayesian factor analysis for multilevel binary observations

Psychometrika

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 475-496

  Ansari, Asim ^a   Jedidi, Kamel ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Binary data; Gibbs sampling; MCMC methods; Metropolis Hastings; Multilevel factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034557673     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02296339     Document Type: Article

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