Fitting Data to Model: Structural Equation Modeling Diagnosis Using Two Scatter Plots

Psychological Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 335-351

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Hayashi, Kentaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor scores; Leverage observations; Masking effect; Outliers; Robust estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CAUSALITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78650091106     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020140     Document Type: Article

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