The Monte Carlo em method for estimating multinomial probit latent variable models

Computational Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 277-289

  Zhou, Xingcai ^a,b   Liu, Xinsheng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b Institute of Information Technology and Engineering Management   (China)

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EID: 42149087923     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: 16139658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-007-0091-7     Document Type: Article

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