Smoking and cancers: Case-robust analysis of a classic data set

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 382-390

  Bentler, Peter M ^a   Satorra, Albert ^b   Yuan, Ke Hai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES;

INFLUENTIAL OBSERVATIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; RESTRICTED MODELS; ROBUST ANALYSIS; SAMPLE STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; WEIGHTING METHODS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 70449565034     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705510902751382     Document Type: Article

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