Download or read book Handbook of Latent Variable and Related Models written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. - Covers a wide class of important models - Models and statistical methods described provide tools for analyzing a wide spectrum of complicated data - Includes illustrative examples with real data sets from business, education, medicine, public health and sociology. - Demonstrates the use of a wide variety of statistical, computational, and mathematical techniques.