Model-Implied Instrumental Variable-Generalized Method of Moments (MIIV-GMM) Estimators for Latent Variable Models

Psychometrika

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-50

  Bollen, Kenneth A ^a   Kolenikov, Stanislav ^b   Bauldry, Shawn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Abt SRBI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

factor analysis; generalized method of moments; instrumental variables; latent variables; structural equation models

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84893961163     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-013-9335-3     Document Type: Article

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