Multilevel and latent variable modeling with composite links and exploded likelihoods

Psychometrika

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-140

  Rabe Hesketh, Sophia ^a,b   Skrondal, Anders ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Composite link; Exploded likelihood; Factor model; Frailty; Generalized linear mixed model; Gllamm; Item response model; Latent variable model; Multilevel model; Unfolding; Zero inflated Poisson model

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749004045     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-006-1453-8     Document Type: Article

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