A sparse factor analytic probit model for congressional voting patterns

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 619-635

  Richard Hahn, P ^a   Carvalho, Carlos M ^b   Scott, James G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance estimation; Factor models; Multivariate probit models; Voting patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864101718     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2012.01044.x     Document Type: Article

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