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stat.ME2025
Identification and Scaling of Latent Variables in Ordinal Factor Analysis
Edgar C. Merkle, Sonja D. Winter, Ellen Fitzsimmons
Social science researchers are generally accustomed to treating ordinal variables as though they are continuous. In this paper, we consider how identification constraints in ordina…
stat.ME2023★ 10 cited
Opaque prior distributions in Bayesian latent variable models
Edgar C. Merkle, Oludare Ariyo, Sonja D. Winter +1
We review common situations in Bayesian latent variable models where the prior distribution that a researcher specifies differs from the prior distribution used during estimation.…