Structural equation model trees

Psychological Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-86

  Brandmaier, Andreas M ^a   von Oertzen, Timo ^a   Mcardle, John J ^b   Lindenberger, Ulman ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory data mining; Model based trees; Recursive partitioning; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 84883009529     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030001     Document Type: Article

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