Relative Performance of Categorical Diagonally Weighted Least Squares and Robust Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 102-116

  Bandalos, Deborah L ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

categorical data; DWLS; Robust Maximum Likelihood; WLS

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL DATA; DWLS; MODEL MISSPECIFICATION; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES; WLS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84893636641     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.859510     Document Type: Article

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