Maximum likelihood estimation for nonlinear structural equation models with normal latent variables.
Yan D. ZhaoDewi RahardjaPublished in: Model. Assist. Stat. Appl. (2010)
Keyphrases
- latent variables
- maximum likelihood estimation
- structural equation models
- probabilistic model
- causal effects
- random variables
- maximum likelihood
- em algorithm
- observational data
- expectation maximization
- probability distribution
- causal models
- parameter estimation
- prior knowledge
- topic models
- causal relationships
- online discussion
- gaussian process
- boltzmann machine
- text mining
- directed acyclic graph
- sensitivity analysis
- density function
- bayesian inference
- experimental data
- high dimensional
- data mining
- conditional independence
- mixture model
- generative model
- information retrieval
- higher order
- machine learning