Nonlinear Factor Analysis as a Statistical Method

Statistical Science

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 275-294

  Yalcin, Ilker ^a   Amemiya, Yasuo ^b,c  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Identification; Latent variable modeling; Multivariate data analysis; Test of fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043195269     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/ss/1009213729     Document Type: Article

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