Overview of Structural Equation Models and Recent Extensions

Statistics in the Social Sciences: Current Methodological Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 37-79

  Bollen, Kenneth A ^a   Bauer, Daniel J ^a   Christ, Sharon L ^b   Edwards, Michael C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Odom Institute for Research in Social Science   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Factors specification; Item response models; Random effects; Structural equation mixture models; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881052249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470583333.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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