Pairwise likelihood estimation for factor analysis models with ordinal data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4243-4258

  Katsikatsou, Myrsini ^a   Moustaki, Irini ^b   Yang Wallentin, Fan ^a   Jöreskog, Karl G ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Composite maximum likelihood; Factor analysis; Item response theory approach; Ordinal data; Pairwise likelihood; Three stage estimation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS MODEL; FULL INFORMATION MAXIMUM LIKELIHOODS; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; LEAST SQUARE; LIMITED INFORMATION; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MODEL FORMULATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; ORDINAL DATA; PAIRWISE LIKELIHOOD; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMULATION STUDIES; STANDARD ERRORS; WEIGHT MATRICES; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84864132557     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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