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SUBMITTER: Murray JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3753118 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Murray Jared S JS Dunson David B DB Carin Lawrence L Lucas Joseph E JE
Journal of the American Statistical Association 20130601 502
Gaussian factor models have proven widely useful for parsimoniously characterizing dependence in multivariate data. There is a rich literature on their extension to mixed categorical and continuous variables, using latent Gaussian variables or through generalized latent trait models acommodating measurements in the exponential family. However, when generalizing to non-Gaussian measured variables the latent variables typically influence both the dependence structure and the form of the marginal d ...[more]