Testing Negative Error Variances: Is a Heywood Case a Symptom of Misspecification?

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-167

  Kolenikov, Stanislav ^a   Bollen, Kenneth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

bootstrap; factor analysis; Heywood case; improper solution; misspecified model; negative error variances; sandwich estimator; scaled chi square difference; signed root; specification tests; structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863626440     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124112442138     Document Type: Article

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