Nesting monte carlo EM for high-dimensional item factor analysis

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-36

  An, Xinming ^a   Bentlerb, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Full information item factor analysis; Monte Carlo EM; Nesting EM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901688271     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2011.599810     Document Type: Article

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