Titlebook: Unobserved Variables; Models and Misunders David J. Bartholomew Book 2013 The Author(s) 2013 Bayesian methods.Latent variables.Missing data

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Book 2013ribution may be known, partially or completely, and inferences have to be made on the basis of a sample of observations drawn from the distribution; often, but not necessarily, a random sample. This brief deals with problems where some of the sample members are either unobserved or hypothetical, the

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Measurement, Estimation and Prediction,esulted from a failure to appreciate this point. We also introduce the one-parameter exponential family of distributions. This achieves a substantial simplification without incurring a serious loss of generality. In fact, it permits a considerable degree of unification of existing models and the dev

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Identifiability,hat Spearman’s . corresponds to a physical reality in the brain is not necessarily true. A second concerns the widespread use of latent structure models where, since it may be exceedingly difficult to determine a satisfactory metric for the latent variables, little confidence can be placed in any re

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Categorical Variables,that there is an underlying model in continuous variables for which only categorical observed variables are available. This also provides another example of the lack of identifiability discussed in Chap. 7.

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David J. BartholomewMonat. Schlaf braucht er zuerst sehr viel. In den ersten 4–6 Wochen schläft er fast immer mit Ausnahme der Mahlzeiten. Die ersten Zähnchen kommen gewöhnlich im 6. oder 7. Monat. Der Stuhl des gesunden Säuglings ist gelb und salbenartig, von säuerlichem Geruch; er wird zwei- bis dreimal am Tage entle

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