Linear latent variable models: the lava-package

DOI10.1007/S00180-012-0344-YzbMATH Open1306.65070DBLPjournals/cstat/HolstB13arXiv1206.3421OpenAlexW1966464274WikidataQ53470746 ScholiaQ53470746MaRDI QIDQ73549FDOQ73549

Esben Budtz-Jørgensen, Esben Budtz-Jørgensen, Klaus Kähler Holst, Klaus Kähler Holst

Publication date: 5 September 2012

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An R package for specifying and estimating linear latent variable models is presented. The philosophy of the implementation is to separate the model specification from the actual data, which leads to a dynamic and easy way of modeling complex hierarchical structures. Several advanced features are implemented including robust standard errors for clustered correlated data, multigroup analyses, non-linear parameter constraints, inference with incomplete data, maximum likelihood estimation with censored and binary observations, and instrumental variable estimators. In addition an extensive simulation interface covering a broad range of non-linear generalized structural equation models is described. The model and software are demonstrated in data of measurements of the serotonin transporter in the human brain.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3421

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zbMATH Keywords

Rlatent variable modelmaximum likelihoodseasonalityserotoninSERTstructural equation model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08)

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Uses Software

• R
• lme4
• S-PLUS
• Bioconductor
• mvtnorm
• survival
• sem
• Mplus
• igraph
• foreach
• numDeriv
• Rgraphviz
• OpenMx
• MEMSS
• gof
• TikzDevice
• lava.tobit

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