Estimating structural equation models with non-normal variables by using transformations

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 213-226

  Montfort, Kees Van ^a   Mooijaart, Ab ^b   Meijerink, Frits ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformations; Maximum likelihood estimation; Non normal variables; Structural equation models; Test statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349109245     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2009.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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