Half-trek criterion for identifiability of latent variable models

DOI10.1214/22-AOS2221MaRDI QIDQ2112804

Rina Foygel Barber, Luca Weihs, Mathias Drton, Nils Sturma

Publication date: 12 January 2023

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04457

zbMATH Keywords

parameter identificationcovariance matrixlatent variablesfactor analysisgraphical modelstructural equation modelhidden variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear regression; mixed models (62J05) Probabilistic graphical models (62H22) Algebraic statistics (62R01)

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Uses Software

• R
• TETRAD
• SEMID

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