A note on goodness-of-fit test in latent variable models with categorical variables

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 16-17, 2012, Pages 2983-2990

  Cagnone, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Marginal residuals; Moore Penrose generalized inverse; Ordinal data; Sparse data

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL DATA; CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GENERALIZED INVERSE; GOODNESS OF FIT; GOODNESS-OF-FIT STATISTICS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MARGINAL RESIDUALS; MOORE-PENROSE GENERALIZED INVERSE; ORDINAL DATA; QUADRATIC FORM; SPARSE DATA;

NUMBER THEORY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 84866045050     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2011.622424     Document Type: Article

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