Latent variable models

This book is intended as an introduction to an exciting growth area in social science methodology--the use of multiple-latent-variable models. Psychologists and other social scientists have long been familiar with one subvariety of such modeling, factor analysis--more properly, exploratory factor an...

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Glavni autor: Loehlin, John C. (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987.
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  • Path models in factor, path, and structural analysisFitting path modelsVarieties of path and structural models
  • IVarieties of path and structural models
  • IIModels with reciprocal influences and correlated errorsModels of events over timeModels comparing different groupsExploratory factor analysis
  • I: Extracting the factorsExploring factor analysis
  • II: Transforming the factors to simpler structureOrthogonal transformation
  • quartimax and varimaxOblique transformationsFactor rotation programs
  • SPSS, BMDP, and SASExtensions of latent variable analysisAppendicesA. Simple matrix operationsB. IPSOLC. Derivation of matrix version of path equationsD. Alpha and canonical factor extraction
  • a worked exampleE. Examples of input for factor extraction by SPSS, BMDP, and SASF. Data matrix for Thurstone's box problemG. Table of chi square