Maximum likelihood estimation and model comparison of nonlinear structural equation models with continuous and polytomous variables

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 125-142

  Lee, Sik Yum ^a   Song, Xin Yuan ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian Information Criterion; Gibbs sampler; Importance sampling; Latent variables; MCEM algorithm; Metropolis Hastings algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

LATENT VARIABLES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0141924113     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00305-5     Document Type: Article

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