Conducting specification searches with amos

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 118-129

  Schumacker, Randall E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYES INFORMATION CRITERION; MODEL MODIFICATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; THEORETICAL MODELING; THEORY AND MODELING;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 33644670900     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1301_6     Document Type: Article

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