Latent Factors
GMM Estimation of the Number of Latent Factors
... In this paper we present an alternative generalized method of moment (GMM) estimator of the number of factors. The advantages of this new method compared with those discussed above are the following. First, the ...
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Model-based analysis of latent factors
... Received: 9 July 2018 – Revised: 12 October 2018 – Accepted: 29 October 2018 – Published: 14 November 2018 Abstract. The detection of community or population structure through analysis of explicit cause–effect mod- eling ...
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Determining the Number of Latent Factors in Statistical Multi-Relational Learning
... the concavity (convexity) of the likelihood (or the empirical loss) functions. In contrast, for most tensor decomposition models including RESCAL, the likelihood (or the empirical loss) function is usually non-concave ...
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Research on recommendation algorithm based on unified model with explicit and latent factors
... the latent factor model have been made a great success ...the factors in this completely data-driven ...influencing factors on user preferences to optimize the structure of latent factor ...
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DEGREE OF USER SATISFACTION WITH UTILIZATION OF EXPERIMENTAL FARM ACTIVITIES AND LATENT FACTORS
... a latent element that influences satisfaction level, it was found that elements related to "park / facility atmosphere" and “basic setup of the rental farmland” were ...farmland” factors, it was ...
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Estimation and testing of latent factors in term structure of interest rates
... 1987 Nelson-Siegel the forecastability of model In the case of US zero coupon bond yield term structures with short maturity cluster including ten maturities of 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 mo[r] ...
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Latent Factors Limiting the Performance of sEMG-Interfaces
... In this case the subjects were asked to repeat a set of individual gestures (move left, move right, etc.). Overall improvement in controlling pacman by the sEMG-interface after [r] ...
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A Competitive Model of Lenggong Valley as a Rural Heritage Destination in Malaysia
... supporting factors and resources, of which the latent factors are infrastructure, accessibility, facilitating resources, hospitality, enterprises, and political will; (2) core resources and ...
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Towards Identifying the Resolvability of Threads in MOOCs
... the latent factor sets in the order of their strength of estimated influence on ...five latent factor sets, we find that it outperforms all one layer logistic regressors, especially in Recall and ...five ...
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Human Factors Engineering: Latent challenges from a knowledge worker perspective
... what latent factors could lead to a triggering event for a nuclear catastrophe which transcend the limits of knowledge prevailing at any ...reduced latent errors at ...
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A structural test of the Integrated Motivational Volitional model of suicidal behaviour
... 17 latent factors were identified: defeat, entrapment, anxiety, depression, suicide ideation, brooding rumination, suicide resilience (3 factors), perceived belongingness, goal disengagement, goal ...
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Causal relationships between physical, mental and social health related factors among the Japanese elderly: A chronological study
... health-related latent factors by Amos ...health-related factors mea- sured in the 2001 survey may have an effect on the iden- tical corresponding health-related factor measured in the 2004 ...two ...
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Uneven Distribution of Mutational Variance Across the Transcriptome of Drosophila serrata Revealed by High-Dimensional Analysis of Gene Expression
... common latent factor (the transcriptome-wide extent of mutational covariance), and whether the total observed mutational variance in this experiment is consistent with many latent factors (muta- ...
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Human Centered NLP with User Factor Adaptation
... user factors in- ferred from a background of their lan- guage, reflecting the idea that a piece of text should be understood within the con- text of the user that wrote ...user factors that are common in ...
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Evaluating the Perceived Stress Scale among UK university students: Implications for stress measurement and management
... the latent factor structure of the PSS-10, based on previous research, were assessed using ...single latent variable of perceived ...two latent variables are represented by Distress (items 1, 2, 3, ...
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How Performing PCA and CFA on the Same Data Equals Trouble
... The factor variances indicate that maybe there are no latent factors underlying the observed variables. References[r] ...
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Psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Test Anxiety Inventory
... order latent factors loadings ...second-order latent factor called TAI-T (Model C: Three-factors: two first-order and one sec- ond-order latent factors), as well as their ...
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Using latent variables in logistic regression to reduce multicollinearity, A case-control example: breast cancer risk factors
... Methods: The data belonged to a case-control study in which 300 women with breast cancer were compared to same number of controls. To assess the effect of multicollinearity, five highly correlated quantitative variables ...
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Understanding the distribution of economic benefits from improving coastal and marine ecosystems
... Relationships between latent factors and socio-demographic characteristics Latent Factor 1 Age Male Latvian Household size Number of children Education: primary23 Education: complete com[r] ...
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Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection and associated risk factors in an urban African setting
... The study showed that leaving home for school or em- ployment was associated with latent TB infection, sug- gesting the possibility of exposure outside of home. It is plausible that as people frequently move ...
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