Recent developments in maximum likelihood estimation of MTMM models for categorical data

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2014, Pages

  Jeon, Minjeong ^a   Rijmen, Frank ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CTB MCGRAW HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating imputation posterior; Crossed factors; Maximum likelihood estimation; Monte carlo local likelihood; Multitrait multimethod model; Variational maximization maximization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899697712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00269     Document Type: Article

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