Using the delta method for approximate interval estimation of parameter functions in SEM

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 621-637

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ERROR VARIANCE; MULTIWAVE MODELS; REPARAMETERIZATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING (SEM);

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 8344252727     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1104_7     Document Type: Article

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