- gold standard (Christensen, 1990; Agresti, 2013) ⇒ Pb with high dimensional data. • Latent variables models: • categoricals: latent class models (Goodman, 1974) - unsupervised clustering for one latent variable. Nonparametric Bayesian extensions (Dunson, 2009, 2012) • continuous: latent-trait models (Lazar, 1968) - item response theory (psychology & education, Van der Linden, 1997) • fixed: often one latent variable, difficulties to estimate. • random: Gaussian distribution on the latent variables (Moustaki, 2000; Sanchez, 2013) ⇒ Binary data: Collins, Dasgupta, & Schapire (2001), Buntine (2002), Hoff (2009), De Leeuw (2006), Li & Tao (2013) 19 / 35