Effect of outliers on estimators and tests in covariance structure analysis

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 161-175

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Bentler, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 0035350404     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711001159366     Document Type: Article

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