Residual-based diagnostics for structural equation models

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-115

  Sanchez B N ^a   Houseman, E A ^b,c   Ryan, L M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional residuals; Latent variable residuals; Linearity; Marginal residuals; Normality

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONDITIONAL RESIDUAL; GOODNESS OF FIT; GRAPHICAL DISPLAYS; LATENT VARIABLE; LATENT-VARIABLE RESIDUAL; LINEARITY; MARGINAL RESIDUAL; NORMALITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; TEST STATISTICS;

STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LEAD;

DATA INTERPRETATION; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

EID: 62749084979     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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