Structural equation modeling with near singular covariance matrices

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4842-4858

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Chan, Wai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICS;

REAL DATA EXAMPLES; STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 44349160026     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.03.030     Document Type: Article

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