Bayesian Hierarchical Multivariate Formulation with Factor Analysis for Nested Ordinal Data

Psychometrika

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 275-302

  Savitsky, Terrance D ^a   McCaffrey, Daniel F ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; data augmentation; Dirichlet process; latent models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; ordinal data

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY;

BAYES THEOREM; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FACULTY; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84897024481     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-013-9339-z     Document Type: Article

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