Robustness of statistical inference in factor analysis and related models

DOI10.1093/biomet/74.2.375zbMath0633.62052OpenAlexW2041717909MaRDI QIDQ3771422

Michael W. Browne

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/74.2.375

zbMATH Keywords

robustnessasymptotic propertiesfactor analysislikelihood ratio test statisticmaximum likelihood estimatorsconditional independencelatent variable modelsLISRELasymptotic chi-squared distributionnonnormal distributionsminimum discrepancy test statistics and estimatorsnormal theory likelihood ratio test statisticnormal theory tests of fitsequential difference testsunrestricted factor analysis model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Robustness and adaptive procedures (parametric inference) (62F35)

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