An Introduction to Latent Variable Models (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability) - Hardcover

Everett, B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412253100 ISBN 13: 9780412253102

Publisher: Springer, 1984

Synopsis

Latent variable models are used in many areas of the social and behavioural sciences, and the increasing availability of computer packages for fitting such models is likely to increase their popularity. This book attempts to introduce such models to applied statisticians and research workers interested in exploring the structure of covari­ ance and correlation matrices in terms of a small number of unob­ servable constructs. The emphasis is on the practical application of the procedures rather than on detailed discussion of their mathe­ matical and statistical properties. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the most commonly used statistical concepts and methods, particularly regression, and also has a fair knowledge of matrix algebra. My thanks are due to my colleagues Dr David Hand and Dr Graham Dunn for helpful comments on the book, to Mrs Bertha Lakey for her careful typing of a difficult manuscript and to Peter Cuttance for assistance with the LlSREL package. In addition the text clearly owes a great deal to the work on structural equation models published by Karl Joreskog, Dag Sorbom, Peter Bentler, Michael Browne and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412253100
• ISBN 13: 9780412253102
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108