Two Equivalent Discrepancy Functions for Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Do Their Test Statistics Follow a Non-central Chi-square Distribution under Model Misspecification?

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 453-500

  Olsson, Ulf Henning ^a   Foss, Tron ^a   Breivik, Einar ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fit assessment; Non central chi square approximation; Specification error; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442488490     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124103258131     Document Type: Article

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