Correction to Cole and Preacher (2013) Manifest Variable Path Analysis: Potentially Serious and Misleading Consequences Due to Uncorrected Measurement Error [Psychological Methods, Advanced online publication, September 30, 2013] doi: 10.1037/a0033805;Manifest variable path analysis: Potentially serious and misleading consequences due to uncorrected measurement error

Psychological Methods

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 300-315

  Cole, David A ^a   Preacher, Kristopher J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Measurement error; Parameter estimation; Path analysis; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84902456140     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037174     Document Type: Erratum

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