Recent developments in multivariate analysis

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An Invited-Paper Session of the IMPS2007 in Tokyo

Session day: July 11 (Wed), 2007 Session time: 2 hours Session organizer: Hirokazu Yanagihara (Hiroshima University)                             Yutaka Kano (Osaka University) Session chair: Yutaka Kano (Osaka University)

Session Program (The asterisk * denotes a presenter)

Muni S. Srivastava (University of Toronto)* Some tests criteria for the covariance matrix with fewer observations than the dimension Yasunori Fujikoshi (Chuo University & University of Tokyo)* Corrected AIC for selecting of variables in canonical correlation analysis and some conditional independence structures Yoshiyuki Ninomiya (Kyushu University)* Hirokazu Yanagihara (Hiroshima University) On testing for the number of factors in factor analysis via locally conic parametrization Ke-Hai Yuan (University of Notre Dame)* Identifying variables responsible for data not missing at random Juanmei Liu (University of California, Los Angels) Peter M. Bentler (University of California, Los Angels)* SEM of ordinal data with pairwise maximum likelihood This session is hosted jointly with the international-meeting committee conducted by the grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (B) #18300094 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the 21st Century COE Program "Behavioral macrodynamics based on surveys and experiments."

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