Moustaki, Irini


Dr Irini Moustaki  

Department

Position held

Department of Statistics

Head of Department

Experience keywords:

outliers; item response theory; latent variable models; structural equation models; missing values; categorical data

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My work is related to methodology and applications of latent variable models and structural equation models in social sciences. Analysis of categorical and mixed type data are part of my research work. I have recently worked on issues related to missing values, robust estimation, detection of outliers and non-linear effects.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Consultancy

Languages:

Greek [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]

Media experience:

Radio

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7107 5172

Publications

The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.

2013

Anagnostopoulos, Fotios and Yfantopoulos, John and Moustaki, Irini and Niakas, Dimitris (2013) Psychometric and factor analytic evaluation of the 15D health-related quality of life instrument: the case of Greece. Quality of life research, pp. 1-14. ISSN 0962-9343

2012

Katsikatsou, Myrsini and Moustaki, Irini and Yang-Wallentin, Fan and Jöreskog, Karl G. (2012) Pair wise likelihood estimation for factor analysis models with ordinal data. Computational statistics and data analysis, 56 (12). pp. 4243-4258. ISSN 0167-9473

Katsikatsou, M. and Moustaki, Irini and Yang-Wallentin, Fan and Jöreskog, Karl G. (2012) Pairwise likelihood estimation for factor analysis models with ordinal data. Computational statistics & data analysis, 56 (12). pp. 4243-4258. ISSN 0167-9473

Emery, Aidan and Ibironke, Olufunmilola and Koukounari, Artemis and Asaolu, Samuel and Moustaki, Irini and Shiff, Clive (2012) Validation of a new test for schistosoma haematobium based on detection of dra1 DNA fragments in urine: evaluation through latent class analysis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 6 (1). ISSN 1935-2735

Vasdekis, Vassilis G. S. and Cagnone, Silvia and Moustaki, Irini (2012) A composite likelihood inference in latent variable models for ordinal longitudinal responses. Psychometrika, 77 (3). pp. 425-441. ISSN 0033-3123

2011

Bartholomew, David J. and Knott, Martin and Moustaki, Irini (2011) Latent variable models and factor analysis: a unified approach. John Wiley & Sons, London, UK. ISBN 9780470971925

2009

Mavridis, Dimitris and Moustaki, Irini (2009) The forward search algorithm for detecting aberrant response patterns in factor analysis for binary data. Journal of computational and graphical statistics, 18 (4). pp. 1016-1034. ISSN 1061-8600

Cagnone, Silvia and Moustaki, Irini and Vasdekis, Vassilis (2009) Latent variable models for multivariate longitudinal ordinal responses. British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology, 62 (2). pp. 401-415. ISSN 0007-1102

2008

Rizopoulos, Dimitris and Moustaki, Irini (2008) Generalized latent variables models with non-linear effects. British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology, 61 (2). pp. 415-438. ISSN 0007-1102

Mavridis, Dimitris and Moustaki, Irini (2008) Detecting outliers in factor analysis using the forward search algorithm. Multivariate behavioral research, 43 (3). pp. 453-475. ISSN 1532-7906

Bartholomew, David and Steele, Fiona and Galbraith, J and Moustaki, Irini (2008) Analysis of multivariate social science data. Routledge, U.K.. ISBN 9781584889601

2007

Tsonaka, R and Moustaki, I (2007) Parameter constraints in generalized linear latent variable models. Computational statistics and data analysis, 51 (9). pp. 4164-4177. ISSN 0167-9473

Moustaki, Irini (2007) Factor analysis and latent structure of categorical and metric data. In: Cudeck, R and MacCallum, R. C., (eds.) Factor analysis at 100: historical developments and future directions. Erlbaum, Philadelphia, USA, pp. 293-314. ISBN 9780805862126

Mavridis, D and Moustaki, Irini and Knott, Martin (2007) Goodness-of-fit measures for latent variable models for binary data. In: Lee, Sik-Yum, (ed.) Handbook for latent variable and related models. Elsevier BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 135-162. ISBN 9780444520449

Bock, R. Darrell and Moustaki, Irini (2007) Item response theory in a general framework. In: Rao, C. R. and Sinharay, Sandip, (eds.) Handbook of statistics, volume 26: Psychometrics. North-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 469-514. ISBN 9780444521033

2006

Moustaki, I and Victoria-Feser, M. P (2006) Bounded-influence robust estimation in generalized linear latent variable models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104 (474). pp. 644-653. ISSN 0162-1459

2005

Moustaki, Irini and Steele, Fiona (2005) Latent variable models for mixed categorical and survival responses with an application to fertility preferences and family planning in Bangladesh. Statistical modelling, 5 (4). pp. 327-342. ISSN 1471-082X

Moustaki, Irini and Knott, Martin (2005) Computational aspects of the E-M and Bayesian estimation in latent variable models. In: Andries van der Ark, L and Croon, Marcel A and Sijtsma, Klaas, (eds.) New developments in categorical data analysis for the social and behavioral sciences. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, U.S., pp. 103-124. ISBN 0805847286

2004

Moustaki, Irini and Papageorgiou, Ioulia (2004) Latent class models for mixed outcomes with applications in archaeometry. Computational statistics and data analysis, 48 (3). pp. 659-675. ISSN 0167-9473

Moustaki, Irini and Joreskog, K and Mavridis, D (2004) Factor models for ordinal variables with covariate effects on the manifest and latent variables: a comparison of LISREL and IRT approaches. Structural equation modelling, 11 (4). pp. 487-513. ISSN 1532-8007

2003

Moustaki, Irini (2003) A general class of latent variable models for ordinal manifest variables with covariate effects on the manifest and latent variables. British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology, 56 (2). pp. 337-357. ISSN 0007-1102

Moustaki, Irini (2003) Latent variable models with covariates. In: Kevork, Kōnst Ēl and Tzōrtzopoulos, P and Panaretos, John, (eds.) Stochastic musings : perspectives from the pioneers of the late 20th century: a volume in celebration of the 13 years of the Department of Statistics of the Athens University of Economics & Business in honour of Professors C. Kevork & P. Tzortzopoulos. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, U.S., pp. 117-128. ISBN 9780805846140

Marcoulides, George A. and Moustaki, Irini, (eds.) (2003) Latent variable and latent structure models. Lawrence Earlbaum Publishers, Mahwah, U.S.. ISBN 080584046X

2002

Moustaki, Irini and Marcoulides, George. A (2002) Locating "don't know", "no answer" and middle alternatives on an attitude scale: a latent variable approach. In: Marcoulides, G and Moustaki, Irini, (eds.) Latent Variable and Latent Structure Models. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, U.S., pp. 15-41. ISBN 9780805840469

Bartholomew, David. J and Steele, Fiona and Moustaki, Irini and Galbraith, J. I (2002) The analysis and interpretation of multivariate data for social scientists. Chapman & Hall/CRC, U.S.. ISBN 9781584882954

Moustaki, Irini (2002) Discussion of the paper by Fayers and Hand [Fayers, P. M. and Hand, D. J., Causal variables, indicator variables and measurement scales: an example from quality of life, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2002:165(2), 233-261]. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A, 165 (2). pp. 258-259. ISSN 0964-1998

2001

Jöreskog, Karl G. and Moustaki, Irini (2001) Factor analysis of ordinal variables: a comparison of three approaches. Multivariate behavioral research, 36 (3). pp. 347-387. ISSN 0027-3171

2000

Moustaki, Irini (2000) A latent variable model for ordinal variables. Applied psychological measurement, 24 (3). pp. 211-223. ISSN 0146-6216

Moustaki, Irini and Knott, Martin (2000) Generalised latent trait models. Psychometrika, 65 (3). pp. 391-411. ISSN 0033-3123

Moustaki, Irini and O'Muircheartaigh, C. (2000) A one dimension latent trait model to infer attitude from nonresponse for nominal data. Statistica, 60 (2). pp. 259-276. ISSN 0390-590X

Moustaki, Irini and Knott, Martin (2000) Weighting for item non-response in attitude scales by using latent variable models with covariates. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: series A, 163 (3). pp. 445-459. ISSN 0964-1998

Moustaki, Irini (2000) A review of exploratory factor analysis for ordinal categorical data. In: Cudeck, Robert and Dunn, Stephen and Sorbom, Dag, (eds.) Structural equation models: present and future. Scientific software international, U.S., pp. 461-480. ISBN 9780894980497

1996

Moustaki, Irini and O'Muircheartaigh, C (1996) Item non-response in attitude scales: a latent variable approach. In:51st Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (16-19 May 1996 : Salt Lake City, Utah, USA).

Moustaki, Irini (1996) A latent trait and a latent class model for mixed observed variables. British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology, 49 (2). pp. 313-334. ISSN 0007-1102

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