Lavaan: An R package for structural equation modeling

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rosseel, Yves ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Latent variables; Path analysis; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863306901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v048.i02     Document Type: Article

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