Comparison of multiple regression to two latent variable techniques for estimation and prediction

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 3671-3685

  Wall, Melanie M ^a   Li, Ruifeng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Multiple regression; Respiratory disease; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CENSUSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 0344035227     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1588     Document Type: Article

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