Power analysis for complex mediational designs using Monte Carlo methods

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 510-534

  Thoemmes, Felix ^a   MacKinnon, David P ^b   Reiser, Mark R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATENT VARIABLE; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; LINEAR GROWTH; LONGITUDINAL DESIGNS; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; POWER ANALYSIS; POWER CALCULATION; STATISTICAL POWER;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; ESTIMATION; SAMPLING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 77954448337     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2010.489379     Document Type: Article

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