While both our work here and in Žitnik and Zupan (2015) rely on latent factor models, they are substantially different from one another.
These estimates rely on factors such as person's age, gender, smoking history, whether they have certain diseases and whether they can perform certain functions, like walking several blocks, pushing an armchair or managing their finances.
The diagnosis may rely on factors other than volume, such as speed of blood flow and nature of loss.
However, it might also be that treatment choices rely on factors completely different from those recorded in our study.
Instead, the pathogenesis of premature CVD in SLE may rely on factors unique to the disease itself [ 4].
The fact that other interventions such as antithrombin concentrate or recombinant tissue factor pathway inhibitor were less successful [ 5, 6], however, may suggest that the beneficial effect of recombinant activated protein C may also rely on factors beyond coagulation.
Insurance companies rely on factors like your health history, current health, weight, and occupation to determine your premium.
Even a small rise in base rate could send shockwaves through the property market, not because mortgages suddenly become unaffordable – they won't – but because the current extraordinary level of house prices rely on one factor above all: confidence.
In this study, we relied on factor analysis to locate a small number of unobserved variables (factors) based on similarities in the responses.
To analyze theoretical structure models, most research relies on factor analytical approaches, though increasingly, multidimensional item response theory (IRT) models have grown in popularity (Hartig & Höhler, 2008).
