KBS Impact's currently patented variant of
FIML is called U10Seal.
The LCA estimation procedure, full information maximum likelihood (
FIML), accommodates missing data by estimating parameters using all available data.
A model with an endogenous variable of this type can be estimated as a bivariate probit with
FIML (Greene, 2008, p.
We used full information maximum likelihood (
FIML) estimation based on the missing-at-random assumption.
Instead of excluding cases without information, full information maximum likelihood (
FIML) estimation was used.
The LCGAs were carried out using Mplus version 7.3 using the full information maximum likelihood (
FIML) estimation of missing data [34].
Full information maximum likelihood (
FIML) estimation was used to address the issues of non-response (unit as well as item non-response).
In order to account for missing data (beyond the missing due to periodontal issues mentioned earlier), a Full Information Maximum Likelihood method (
FIML) in MPLUS 7.4 [55] was incorporated.
(2) The second model is a switching regression Poisson model based on the full information maximum likelihood (
FIML) method (Miranda 2004).