Maximum likelihood analysis of a two-level nonlinear structural equation model with fixed covariates

Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-26

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

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bayesian information criterion; Gibbs sampler; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Monte Carlo EM algorithm; Path sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 17244380648     PISSN: 10769986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/10769986030001026     Document Type: Article

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