A joint latent variable model approach to item reduction and validation

Biostatistics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-60

  Halberstadt, Steffanie M ^a   Schmitz, Kathryn H ^a   Sammel, Mary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Latent variable models; Lymphedema; Multiple Indicator Multiple Cause models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; BREAST TUMOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOSTATISTICS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 83755205365     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxr018     Document Type: Article

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