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Edgar C. Merkle; Oludare Ariyo; Sonja D. Winter; Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal – Grantee Submission, 2023
We review common situations in Bayesian latent variable models where the prior distribution that a researcher specifies differs from the prior distribution used during estimation. These situations can arise from the positive definite requirement on correlation matrices, from sign indeterminacy of factor loadings, and from order constraints on…
Descriptors: Models, Bayesian Statistics, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
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Ruoxuan Li; Lijuan Wang – Grantee Submission, 2024
Causal-formative indicators are often used in social science research. To achieve identification in causal-formative indicator modeling, constraints need to be applied. A conventional method is to constrain the weight of a formative indicator to be 1. The selection of which indicator to have the fixed weight, however, may influence statistical…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Causal Models, Formative Evaluation, Measurement
Liu, Haiyan; Jin, Ick Hoon; Zhang, Zhiyong – Grantee Submission, 2018
Psychologists are interested in whether friends and couples share similar personalities or not. However, no statistical models are readily available to test the association between personalities and social relations in the literature. In this study, we develop a statistical model for analyzing social network data with the latent personality traits…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Social Networks, Personality Traits, Statistical Analysis