Identification constraints and inference in factor models

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 232-244

  Loken, Eric ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION CONSTRAINTS; LATENT TRAIT; NONZERO CONSTRAINT; ORTHOGONAL FACTORS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR DETECTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY;

EID: 18444363068     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1202_3     Document Type: Article

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