A polychoric instrumental variable (PIV) estimator for structural equation models with categorical variables

Psychometrika

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 309-326

  Bollen, Kenneth A ^a   Maydeu Olivares, Albert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dichotomous variables; Factor analysis; Instrumental variables; Latent variables; Ordinal variables; Two stage least squares (2SLS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448944724     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-007-9006-3     Document Type: Article

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