A skew-normal factor model for the analysis of student satisfaction towards university courses

DOI10.1080/02664760902736737OpenAlexW2032628376MaRDI QIDQ5123542

Cinzia Viroli, Angela Montanari

Publication date: 29 September 2020

Published in: Journal of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02664760902736737

zbMATH Keywords

EM algorithmlatent variablesfactor analysisskew-normal distributionorthogonal rotationsGauss-Hermite quadrature points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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Uses Software

• sn
• bootstrap

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