Structural equation modeling: Strengths, limitations, and misconceptions

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 31-65

  Tomarken, Andrew J ^a   Waller, Niels G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal models; Confirmatory factor analysis; Covariance structure analysis; Latent variables; Path analysis; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL MODELING; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; PATH ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 33645009302     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.1.102803.144239     Document Type: Review

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