Issues in evaluating model fit with missing data

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 578-597

  Davey, Adam ^a   Savla, Jyoti ^b   Luo, Zupei ^c  

^a Polisher Research Institute   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State Farm   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECT MODELS; EVALUATING MODELS; INCOMPLETE DATA; MISSING AT RANDOMS; MISSING DATA; MISSPECIFIED MODELS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 32944466272     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1204_4     Document Type: Article

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