Using SAS for Monte Carlo simulation research in SEM

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 299-333

  Fan, Xitao ^a   Fan, Xiaotao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIOMETRICS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING (SEM);

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 18444406315     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1202_7     Document Type: Article

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