Latent variable modelling: A survey

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 712-745

  Skrondal, Anders ^a   Rabe Hesketh, Sophia ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; GLLAMM; Item response theory; Latent class; Latent trait; Latent variable; Measurement error; Mixed effects model; Multilevel model; Random effect; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749051765     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2007.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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