A review of eight software packages for structural equation modeling

American Statistician

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-138

  Narayanan, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of moment structures; Confirmatory factor analysis; Covariance structure analysis; Latent variable modeling; Linear structural relations; Path analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865144790     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2012.708641     Document Type: Review

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