Robustness of fit indices to outliers and leverage observations in structural equation modeling

Psychological Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-136

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Zhong, Xiaoling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Good leverage observations; Influential cases; Maximum likelihood; Robust estimation method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84879518234     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031604     Document Type: Article

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