A Simulation Study of Polychoric Instrumental Variable Estimation in Structural Equation Models

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 680-694

  Jin, Shaobo ^a   Luo, Hao ^b   Yang Wallentin, Fan ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

factor analysis; model misspecification; ordinal data; robustness

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SURVEYS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSES (CFA); CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; MODEL MISSPECIFICATION; ORDINAL DATA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84974676919     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2016.1189334     Document Type: Article

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