Estimating, Testing, and Comparing Specific Effects in Structural Equation Models: The Phantom Model Approach

Psychological Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-43

  Macho, Siegfried ^a   Ledermann, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Phantom models; SEM; Specific effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952594090     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021763     Document Type: Article

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