Williams, John R.; Temme, Dirk; Hildebrandt, Lutz - 2002
regard: (1) Finite mixtures of structural equation models and (2) hierarchical Bayesian estimation. In this paper, we focus … when the proportions were unequal and parameters were relatively close together across groups. Of the three estimation … methods available in MECOSA the two-stage minimum distance estimation (MDE) in general performed worse than the alternative EM …