Continuous time structural equation modeling with r package ctsem

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-35

  Driver, Charles C ^a   Oud, Johan H L ^b   Voelkle, Manuel C ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuous time; Dynamic models; Kalman filter; Longitudinal modeling; Panel data; R; State space; Stochastic differential equation; Structural equation modeling; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017594702     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v077.i05     Document Type: Article

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