A likelihood-based boosting algorithm for factor analysis models with binary data

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2021.107412MaRDI QIDQ2076167zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michela Battauz, Paolo Vidoni

Publication date 18 February 2022

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2021.107412

zbMATH Keywords

latent variable modelsnegative curvature directionpairwise likelihoodregularizationsparse solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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• Discovery of optimal factors in binary data via a novel method of matrix decomposition
• Every trait counts: marginal maximum likelihood estimation for novel multidimensional count data item response models with rotation or _1-regularization for simple structure

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Uses Software

• Rcpp
• AdaBoost.MH
• R
• psych
• RcppArmadillo

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