New Ways to Evaluate Goodness of Fit: A Note on Using Equivalence Testing to Assess Structural Equation Models

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 148-153

  Marcoulides, Katerina M ^a   Yuan, Ke Hai ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

CFI; equivalence testing; fit indexes; likelihood ratio statistic; RMSEA

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENCE TESTING; FIT INDEXES; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO STATISTICS; RMSEA; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

EID: 84991233097     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2016.1225260     Document Type: Article

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