Asymptotics of AIC, BIC, and RMSEA for Model Selection in Structural Equation Modeling

Psychometrika

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 407-426

  Huang, Po Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Bayesian information criterion; model selection; root mean square error of approximation; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 85018292698     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-017-9572-y     Document Type: Article

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