Bias and Efficiency for SEM With Missing Data and Auxiliary Variables: Two-Stage Robust Method Versus Two-Stage ML

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 178-192

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Tong, Xin ^a   Zhang, Zhiyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

M estimator; missing not at random; nonnormally distributed data; root mean square error; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

DISTRIBUTED DATA; M-ESTIMATORS; MISSING NOT AT RANDOM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84926255940     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.935750     Document Type: Article

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