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Weighted Least Squares Fitting Using Ordinary Least Squares Algorithms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Henk A. L. Kiers
Henk A. L. Kiers*
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University of Groningen
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Abstract

A general approach for fitting a model to a data matrix by weighted least squares (WLS) is studied. This approach consists of iteratively performing (steps of) existing algorithms for ordinary least squares (OLS) fitting of the same model. The approach is based on minimizing a function that majorizes the WLS loss function. The generality of the approach implies that, for every model for which an OLS fitting algorithm is available, the present approach yields a WLS fitting algorithm. In the special case where the WLS weight matrix is binary, the approach reduces to missing data imputation.

Keywords

weighted least squaresalternating least squaresmissing dataalgorithmsmajorizationmatrix approximationmaximum likelihood estimation

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Psychometrika , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 251 - 266
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Copyright © 1997 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

This research has been made possible by a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to the author.

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