Expected Versus Observed Information in SEM With Incomplete Normal and Nonnormal Data

Psychological Methods

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 352-367

  Savalei, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incomplete data; Information matrix; Nonnormal data; Robust statistics; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78650149643     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020143     Document Type: Article

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