A new strategy for testing structural equation models

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 54-60

  Moshagen, Morten ^a   Erdfelder, Edgar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Goodness of fit; Model evaluation; Statistical power; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; GOODNESS OF FIT; MODEL EVALUATION; STATISTICAL POWER; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84928243696     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.950896     Document Type: Article

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