Stochastic search item selection for factor analytic models

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 284-303

  Mavridis, Dimitris ^a,b   Ntzoufras, Ioannis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Factor selection; Gibbs sampling; Markov chain monte carlo; Prior specification; Stochastic search variable selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERSONALITY TEST; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; LINEAR MODELS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84897617724     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: 20448317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bmsp.12019     Document Type: Article

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