Prior sensitivity analysis in default bayesian structural equation modeling

Psychological Methods

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 363-388

  van Erp, Sara ^a   Mulder, Joris ^a   Oberski, Daniel L ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Default priors; Sensitivity analysis; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCINFO; SAMPLE SIZE; SCIENTIST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; BAYES THEOREM; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 85035040110     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000162     Document Type: Article

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