A Limited Information Estimator for Dynamic Factor Models

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 246-263

  Fisher, Zachary F ^a   Bollen, Kenneth A ^a   Gates, Kathleen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic factor analysis; robustness; structural equation modeling; structural misspecification; time series analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; HUMAN; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 85062418565     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2018.1519406     Document Type: Article

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