OpenMx 2.0: Extended Structural Equation and Statistical Modeling

Psychometrika

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 535-549

  Neale, Michael C ^a   Hunter, Michael D ^b   Pritikin, Joshua N ^c   Zahery, Mahsa ^d   Brick, Timothy R ^e   Kirkpatrick, Robert M ^a   Estabrook, Ryne ^f   Bates, Timothy C ^g   Maes, Hermine H ^a   Boker, Steven M ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

behavior genetics; big data; full information maximum likelihood; item factor analysis; latent class analysis; mixture distribution; optimization; ordinal data; path analysis; state space modeling; structural equation modeling; substance use data analysis; time series

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84921856316     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-014-9435-8     Document Type: Article

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