Inflation of Type I error rate in multiple regression when independent variables are measured with error

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-46

  Brunner, Jerry ^a   Austin, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Errors in variables; Measurement error; Monte Carlo; Structural equation models; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049107848     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.10004     Document Type: Article

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