Use of non-normality in structural equation modeling: Application to direction of causation

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3483-3491

  Shimizu, Shohei ^a,b   Kano, Yutaka ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Equivalent model; Higher order moments; Non normality; Structural equation modeling; Unidentified model

Indexed keywords

EID: 49049088513     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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