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Semi-Parametric Factor Analysis

v1.0 · May 26, 2023 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Estimation, scoring, and plotting functions for the semi-parametric factor model proposed by Liu & Wang (2022) <doi:10.1007/s11336-021-09832-8> and Liu & Wang (2023) <arXiv:2303.10079>. Both the conditional densities of observed responses given the latent factors and the joint density of latent factors are estimated non-parametrically. Functional parameters are approximated by smoothing splines, whose coefficients are estimated by penalized maximum likelihood using an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. E- and M-steps can be parallelized on multi-thread computing platforms that support 'OpenMP'. Both continuous and unordered categorical response variables are supported.

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Maintainer: ‘Yang Liu <yliu87@umd.edu>’

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  <arXiv:2303.10079>. Both the conditional densities of observed
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

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installed size is  7.0Mb
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    libs   6.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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