In this paper, we propose a Shamanskii-like Levenberg-Marquardt method for nonlinear equations. At every iteration, not only a LM step but also m−1 approximate LM steps are computed, where m is a positive integer. Under the local error bound condition which is weaker than nonsingularity, we...

Researchers are often interested in testing for measurement invariance with respect to an ordinal auxiliary variable such as age group, income class, or school grade. In a factor-analytic context, these tests are traditionally carried out via a likelihood ratio test statistic comparing a model...

Researchers are often interested in testing for measurement invariance with respect to an ordinal auxiliary variable such as age group, income class, or school grade. In a factor-analytic context, these tests are traditionally carried out via a likelihood ratio test statistic comparing a model...