Recent Developments in Approximated-Likelihood Inference Methods for Latent Variable Models

Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) has well-known links with humor appreciation, such as enjoying jokes that target deviant groups, but less is known about RWA and creative humor production—coming up with funny ideas oneself. A sample of 186 young adults completed a measure of RWA, the HEXACO-100, and 3 humor production tasks that involved writing funny cartoon captions, creating humorous definitions for quirky concepts, and completing joke stems with punchlines. The humor responses were scored by 8 raters and analyzed with many-facet Rasch models. Latent variable models found that RWA had a large, significant effect on humor production (β = -.47 [-.65, -.30], p < .001): responses created by people high in RWA were rated as much less funny. RWA’s negative effect on humor was smaller but still significant (β = -.25 [-.49, -.01], p = .044) after controlling for Openness to Experience (β = .39 [.20, .59], p < .001) and Conscientiousness (β = -.21 [-.41, -.02], p = .029). Taken together, the findings suggest that people high in RWA just aren’t very funny.

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Looking behind the choice of organic: A cross-country analysis applying Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Models

Appetite ◽

10.1016/j.appet.2021.105591 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105591

Author(s):

Ching-Hua Yeh ◽

Monika Hartmann ◽

Matthew Gorton ◽

Barbara Tocco ◽

Virginie Amilien ◽

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Keyword(s):

Latent Variable ◽

Latent Variable Models ◽

Country Analysis ◽

Cross Country

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Evaluating the Viability of Neurocognition as a Transdiagnostic Construct Using Both Latent Variable Models and Network Analysis

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology ◽

10.1007/s10802-021-00770-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hana-May Eadeh ◽

Kristian E. Markon ◽

Joel T. Nigg ◽

Molly A. Nikolas

Keyword(s):

Network Analysis ◽

Latent Variable ◽

Latent Variable Models

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Gaussian Processes Proxy Model with Latent Variable Models and Variogram-Based Sensitivity Analysis for Assisted History Matching

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13174290 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (17) ◽

pp. 4290

Author(s):

Dongmei Zhang ◽

Yuyang Zhang ◽

Bohou Jiang ◽

Xinwei Jiang ◽

Zhijiang Kang

Keyword(s):

Sensitivity Analysis ◽

Gaussian Processes ◽

Latent Variable ◽

History Matching ◽

Latent Variable Models ◽

High Dimensional ◽

Model Parameters ◽

Variable Model ◽

Assisted History Matching ◽

Proxy Models

Reservoir history matching is a well-known inverse problem for production prediction where enormous uncertain reservoir parameters of a reservoir numerical model are optimized by minimizing the misfit between the simulated and history production data. Gaussian Process (GP) has shown promising performance for assisted history matching due to the efficient nonparametric and nonlinear model with few model parameters to be tuned automatically. Recently introduced Gaussian Processes proxy models and Variogram Analysis of Response Surface-based sensitivity analysis (GP-VARS) uses forward and inverse Gaussian Processes (GP) based proxy models with the VARS-based sensitivity analysis to optimize the high-dimensional reservoir parameters. However, the inverse GP solution (GPIS) in GP-VARS are unsatisfactory especially for enormous reservoir parameters where the mapping from low-dimensional misfits to high-dimensional uncertain reservoir parameters could be poorly modeled by GP. To improve the performance of GP-VARS, in this paper we propose the Gaussian Processes proxy models with Latent Variable Models and VARS-based sensitivity analysis (GPLVM-VARS) where Gaussian Processes Latent Variable Model (GPLVM)-based inverse solution (GPLVMIS) instead of GP-based GPIS is provided with the inputs and outputs of GPIS reversed. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed GPLVM-VARS in terms of accuracy and complexity. The source code of the proposed GPLVM-VARS is available at https://github.com/XinweiJiang/GPLVM-VARS.

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Dynamic latent variable models for the analysis of cognitive abilities in the elderly population

Statistics in Medicine ◽

10.1002/sim.9038 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Silvia Bianconcini ◽

Silvia Cagnone

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Abilities ◽

Latent Variable ◽

Elderly Population ◽

Latent Variable Models ◽

The Elderly

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Longitudinal Analysis of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials: Applications of Multilevel and Multidimensional Item Response Theory

Psychometrika ◽

10.1007/s11336-021-09777-y ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Li Cai ◽

Carrie R. Houts

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trial ◽

Clinical Trials ◽

Latent Variable ◽

Patient Reported Outcomes ◽

Multilevel Models ◽

Latent Variable Models ◽

Trial Data ◽

Regulatory Science ◽

Measurement Information ◽

Patient Reported

AbstractWith decades of advance research and recent developments in the drug and medical device regulatory approval process, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are becoming increasingly important in clinical trials. While clinical trial analyses typically treat scores from PROs as observed variables, the potential to use latent variable models when analyzing patient responses in clinical trial data presents novel opportunities for both psychometrics and regulatory science. An accessible overview of analyses commonly used to analyze longitudinal trial data and statistical models familiar in both psychometrics and biometrics, such as growth models, multilevel models, and latent variable models, is provided to call attention to connections and common themes among these models that have found use across many research areas. Additionally, examples using empirical data from a randomized clinical trial provide concrete demonstrations of the implementation of these models. The increasing availability of high-quality, psychometrically rigorous assessment instruments in clinical trials, of which the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) is a prominent example, provides rare possibilities for psychometrics to help improve the statistical tools used in regulatory science.

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