Performance of bootstrapping approaches to model test statistics and parameter standard error estimation in structural equation modeling

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 353-377

  Nevitt, Jonathan ^a   Hancock, Gregory R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 0038187864     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328007SEM0803_2     Document Type: Article

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