Conducting tetrad tests of model fit and contrasts of tetrad-nested models: A new SAS macro

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 76-93

  Hipp, John R ^a   Bauer, Daniel J ^a   Bollen, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

LIKELIHOOD-RATIO TEST (LRT); STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING (SEM); TETRAD TESTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 12844280524     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1201_4     Document Type: Review

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