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Depaoli, Sarah; Clifton, James P.; Cobb, Patrice R. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
A review of the software Just Another Gibbs Sampler (JAGS) is provided. We cover aspects related to history and development and the elements a user needs to know to get started with the program, including (a) definition of the data, (b) definition of the model, (c) compilation of the model, and (d) initialization of the model. An example using a…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Markov Processes, Computer Software, Models
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Xi, Nuo; Browne, Michael W. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
A promising "underlying bivariate normal" approach was proposed by Jöreskog and Moustaki for use in the factor analysis of ordinal data. This was a limited information approach that involved the maximization of a composite likelihood function. Its advantage over full-information maximum likelihood was that very much less computation was…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Data, Computation