Asymptotic robustness of the normal theory likelihood ratio statistic for two-level covariance structure models

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 328-343

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic robustness; Likelihood ratio statistic; Multilevel covariance structure; Nonnormal data

Indexed keywords

EID: 18644379651     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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