On the Relation Between the Linear Factor Model and the Latent Profile Model

Psychometrika

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 564-583

  Halpin, Peter F ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^a   Grasman, Raoul P P P ^a   De Boeck, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Kullback Leibler divergence; latent profile model; linear factor model; maximum likelihood; multivariate kurtosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355144455     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-011-9230-8     Document Type: Article

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