A structural equation approach to models with spatial dependence.(Report)

Geographical Analysis;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......both latent and observed variables within one and the same model. Latent variables (also denoted...examples of latent variables are utility...welfare. Directly observed variables, on the other...between the latent variables. The simultaneous...both ...

latent class model

A Dictionary of Statistics;      39 words ...latent class model A model for cross-tabulated data . The idea is that the apparently complex relationship between the observed variables can be explained by a simple relationship that holds for unobserved latent variables . See also contingency table.

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Journal of the American Statistical Association;  September 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......by their dependence on latent variables such as ability or attitude...independence, the assumption that observed variables are conditionally independent...In educational testing, observed variables might be a set...form of the dependence of observed on latent ...

latent variable

A Dictionary of Statistics;      21 words ...latent variable An unobserved variable that may account for variation in the data and/or for apparent relations between observed variables.

Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal, and...

Technometrics;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......are not observed or measured, or the latent variables. Elaborated in various fields for...multivariate statistical analysis with latent variables. Written by well-known experts in...enriching both theoretical and applied latent variables modeling that also can be used in...

Dynamic latent trait models for multidimensional longitudinal data.

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the presence of one or more latent variables. Such latent variable models...time-specific covariates, latent variables, and measurement errors through...generalized linear models. The latent variables are in turn related to covariates...

THE ROLE OF FARMERS' BEHAVIORAL ATTITUDES AND HETEROGENEITY IN FUTURES...

American Journal of Agricultural Economics;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......always directly observable (so-called latent variables). [4] We show that farmers make decisions...use of futures based on, among others, latent variables. We refer to these latent variables as attributes as well to indicate that...

Editors' introduction to twentieth anniversary commemorative issue of the...

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......modeling volatility, issues related to latent variables, and last but not least, forecasting...example of latent variable models. Latent variables are pervasive in econometrics and...valid inferences in the presence of latent variables. We have chosen to reprint two papers...

Patterns of psychological problems in university undergraduates: Factor...

Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......construed as "general maladjustment"; two latent variables, which could be characterized as...externalizing" problems; and four different latent variables, corresponding roughly to the grouping...and his colleagues found that two latent variables comprising internalizing and ...

A Strategic Analysis of Korean Engineering Education Based on Two...

Journal of Engineering Education;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......developing measurements to define latent variables and then establishing relationships...structural equations, among the latent variables. Such models have been used...first specified the various latent variables related to the two satisfaction...

Building a Better Model: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......allowing paths to be drawn between latent variables (which, in other techniques, are called...path analysis in that relations among latent variables can be examined. Key Words: structural...considering here, they are known as latent variables. So much for the use of consistent...

A latent variable model of segregation analysis for ordinal traits.

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......j. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] * The latent variables are independent random variables. Conditional on all of the latent variables, denoted by [U.sup.i], within...sup.i])[.sup.T] harbors the latent variables and [beta] and [gamma] are...

Latent variable analysis of multivariate spatial data.

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......is widely used in situations where observed variables can be explained by a smaller number...that require the covariances among observed variables to be symmetric, and Grzebyk and...Consider a situation in which each of p observed variables [Z.sub.i](s), i = 1,...,p, can be...

(book review)

Technometrics;  February 1, 2001 ;     649 words ......of multivariate statistical analysis with latent variables. Written by the recognized specialists in...metrical or categorical nature of manifest and latent variables, the authors classify methods of factor...and forties, and works by Lazarsfeld on latent-structure analysis for categorical ...

Estimation for Polynomial Structural Equation Models.

Journal of the American Statistical Association;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......of the unobservable or latent variables of interest. Thus the overall model for the observed variables consists of two parts...observed indicators to the latent variables or factors, and the underlying...relationships among the latent variables (see, e.g., ...