We develop a new estimator for the process of children's skill formation in which children's skills endogenously develop according to a dynamic latent factor structure. Rather than assuming skills are measured perfectly by a particular measure, we accommodate the variety of skills measures used...

A recent and growing area of research applies latent factor models to study the development of children's skills. Some normalization is required in these models because the latent variables have no natural units and no known location or scale. We show that the standard practice of...

Paul Green, writing with Carmone and Wachpress (1976), was among the first scholars to introduce latent variable models to marketing by utilizing the CANDECOMP procedure (Carroll 1980) on contingency tables. A year later, Green, Carmone, and Wachpress (1977) introduced logit and log-linear...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Characteristics and Main Types of Measurement -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The basis of the measure -- 1.3. Attitude scales -- 1.4. Conclusion -- 1.5. Knowledge tests -- 2 Standardizing or Constructing a Measurement Scale -- 2.1....