Standard errors in covariance structure models: Asymptotics versus bootstrap

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 397-417

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Hayashi, Kentaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE TESTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

EID: 33845339652     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711005X85896     Document Type: Article

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