Significance testing for outcome changes via latent growth model

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 375-400

  Wang, Jichuan ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM ERRORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; DELTA METHODS; LATENT GROWTH MODELS (LGM); SLOPE GROWTH FACTORS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 3042804932     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1103_5     Document Type: Article

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