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Bayesian semiparametric analysis of structural equation models with mixed continuous and unordered categorical variables.
Statistics in medicine - 30 Jul 2009
Song Xin-Yuan, Xia Ye-Mao, Lee Sik-Yum
Abstract excerpt
Recently, structural equation models (SEMs) have been applied for analyzing interrelationships among observed and latent variables in biological and medical research. Latent variables in these models are typically assumed to have a normal distribution. This article considers a Bayesian semparametric SEM with covariates, and mixed continuous and unordered categorical variables, in which the explanatory latent...
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