Testing informative hypotheses in SEM increases power: An illustration contrasting classical hypothesis testing with a parametric bootstrap approach

International Journal of Behavioral Development

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 180-190

  Van De Schoot, Rens ^a   Strohmeier, Dagmar ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

acceptance by friends; aggressive behavior; immigrants; inequality constrained hypotheses; informative hypotheses; order restricted inference; plug in p value

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP PROCEDURE; POWER ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

EID: 79952756208     PISSN: 01650254     EISSN: 14640651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165025410397432     Document Type: Article

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