Handbook of latent variable and related models

This Handbook covers latent variable models, which are a flexible class of models for modeling multivariate data to explore relationships among observed and latent variables.<br><br>- Covers a wide class of important models<br>- Models and statistical methods described provide tools for analyzing a wide spectrum of complicated data<br>- Includes illustrative examples with real data sets from business, education, medicine, public health and sociology.<br>- Demonstrates the use of a wide variety of statistical, computational, and mathematical techniques.