Probabilistic Targeted Factor Analysis
概率靶向因子分析
We develop Probabilistic Targeted Factor Analysis (PTFA), a likelihood-based framework for constructing latent factors that are explicitly targeted to variables of economic interest. PTFA provides a probabilistic foundation for Partial Least Squares, allowing supervised factor extraction under uncertainty. The model is estimated via a fast expectation maximization algorithm and naturally accommodates missing data, mixed-frequency observations, stochastic volatility, and…