Variational Bayes for Mixture of Gaussian Structural Equation Models
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| author | Dang, Khue-Dung Maestrini, Luca Hui, Francis K. C. |
| author_facet | Dang, Khue-Dung Maestrini, Luca Hui, Francis K. C. |
| contents | Structural equation models (SEMs) are commonly used to study the structural relationship between observed variables and latent constructs. Recently, Bayesian fitting procedures for SEMs have received more attention thanks to their potential to facilitate the adoption of more flexible model structures, and variational approximations have been shown to provide fast and accurate inference for Bayesian analysis of SEMs. However, the application of variational approximations is currently limited to very simple, elemental SEMs. We develop mean-field variational Bayes algorithms for two SEM formulations for data that present non-Gaussian features such as skewness and multimodality. The proposed models exploit the use of mixtures of Gaussians, include covariates for the analysis of latent traits and consider missing data. We also examine two variational information criteria for model selection that are straightforward to compute in our variational inference framework. The performance of the MFVB algorithms and information criteria is investigated in a simulated data study and a real data application. |
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| spellingShingle | Variational Bayes for Mixture of Gaussian Structural Equation Models Dang, Khue-Dung Maestrini, Luca Hui, Francis K. C. Methodology Structural equation models (SEMs) are commonly used to study the structural relationship between observed variables and latent constructs. Recently, Bayesian fitting procedures for SEMs have received more attention thanks to their potential to facilitate the adoption of more flexible model structures, and variational approximations have been shown to provide fast and accurate inference for Bayesian analysis of SEMs. However, the application of variational approximations is currently limited to very simple, elemental SEMs. We develop mean-field variational Bayes algorithms for two SEM formulations for data that present non-Gaussian features such as skewness and multimodality. The proposed models exploit the use of mixtures of Gaussians, include covariates for the analysis of latent traits and consider missing data. We also examine two variational information criteria for model selection that are straightforward to compute in our variational inference framework. The performance of the MFVB algorithms and information criteria is investigated in a simulated data study and a real data application. |
| title | Variational Bayes for Mixture of Gaussian Structural Equation Models |
| topic | Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08140 |