Latent variable models under misspecification two-stage least squares (2SLS) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimators

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-86

  Bollen, Kenneth A ^a   Kirby, James B ^b   Curran, Patrick J ^a   Paxton, Pamela M ^c   Chen, Feinian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2SLS; FIML; Latent variable models; Misspecification; Specification error; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547233564     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124107301947     Document Type: Article

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