Star graphs induce tetrad correlations: for Gaussian as well as for binary variables

DOI10.1214/14-EJS884MaRDI QIDQ2444221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nanny Wermuth, Giovanni Maria Marchetti

Publication date 9 April 2014

Published in Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5396, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejs/1396271047

zbMATH Keywords

directed star graphfactor analysisgraphical Markov modelsitem response modelslatent class modelstraceable regression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Contingency tables (62H17) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20)

Abstract: Tetrad correlations were obtained historically for Gaussian distributions when tasks are designed to measure an ability or attitude so that a single unobserved variable may generate the observed, linearly increasing dependences among the tasks. We connect such generating processes to a particular type of directed graph, the star graph, and to the notion of traceable regressions. Tetrad correlation conditions for the existence of a single latent variable are derived. These are needed for positive dependences not only in joint Gaussian but also in joint binary distributions. Three applications with binary items are given.

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Uses Software

• TETRAD
• eRm
• poLCA
• mokken

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