Classical latent variable models for medical research

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-32

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SPIROMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THEORY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOMETRY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 40549089931     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280207081236     Document Type: Article

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