On local influence analysis of full information item factor models

Psychometrika

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 339-360

  Lee, Sik Yum ^a   Xu, Liang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Conformal normal curvature; Dichotomous variables; Gibbs sampler; Monte Carlo EM algorithm; Q displacement function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347588417     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294731     Document Type: Article

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