A Comparison of Diagonal Weighted Least Squares Robust Estimation Techniques for Ordinal Data

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 425-438

  DiStefano, Christine ^a   Morgan, Grant B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

confirmatory factor analysis; DWLS; robust estimation techniques; simulation; WLSM; WSLMV

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; DWLS; ROBUST ESTIMATION; SIMULATION; WLSM; WSLMV;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904277287     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.915373     Document Type: Article

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