Linear latent structure analysis: mixture distribution models with linear constraints

DOI10.1016/J.STAMET.2006.04.001MaRDI QIDQ713753zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikhail Kovtun, Igor Akushevich, Kenneth G. Manton, H. Dennis Tolley

Publication date 19 October 2012

Published in Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507025

zbMATH Keywords

principal components analysismixed distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Parametric inference under constraints (62F30)

Abstract: A new method for analyzing high-dimensional categorical data, Linear Latent Structure (LLS) analysis, is presented. LLS models belong to the family of latent structure models, which are mixture distribution models constrained to satisfy the local independence assumption. LLS analysis explicitly considers a family of mixed distributions as a linear space and LLS models are obtained by imposing linear constraints on the mixing distribution. LLS models are identifiable under modest conditions and are consistently estimable. A remarkable feature of LLS analysis is the existence of a high-performance numerical algorithm, which reduces parameter estimation to a sequence of linear algebra problems. Preliminary simulation experiments with a prototype of the algorithm demonstrated a good quality of restoration of model parameters.

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