Interpretable factorization of clinical questionnaires to identify latent factors of psychopathology

ArXi:2312.07762v2 Announce Type: replace Psychiatry research seeks to understand the manifestations of psychopathology in behavior, as measured in questionnaire data, by identifying a small number of latent factors that explain them. While factor analysis is the traditional tool for this purpose, the resulting factors may not be interpretable, and may also be subject to confounding variables. Moreover, missing data are common, and explicit imputation is often required. To overcome these limitations, we