The book, belonging to the series "Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics- Selected Papers from the Statistical Societies," presents a peer-reviewed selection of contributions on relevant topics organized by the editors on the occasion of the SIS 2013 Statistical Conference "Advances in Latent Variables. Methods, Models and Applications," held at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia from June 19 to 21, 2013.

The focus of the book is on advances in statistical methods for analyses with latent variables. In fact, in recent years, there has been...