General mixed-data model: Extension of general location and grouped continuous models

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 533-548

  De Leon, Alexander R ^a   Carriere K C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Latent variable models; Maximum likelihood; Measurement level; Multivariate normal distribution; Polychoric correlation; Polyserial correlation; Probit model

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549106148     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550350405     Document Type: Article

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