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Julia-Kim Walther; Martin Hecht; Steffen Zitzmann – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
Small sample sizes pose a severe threat to convergence and accuracy of between-group level parameter estimates in multilevel structural equation modeling (SEM). However, in certain situations, such as pilot studies or when populations are inherently small, increasing samples sizes is not feasible. As a remedy, we propose a two-stage regularized…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Structural Equation Models, Matrices
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Haiyan Liu; Sarah Depaoli; Lydia Marvin – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
The deviance information criterion (DIC) is widely used to select the parsimonious, well-fitting model. We examined how priors impact model complexity (pD) and the DIC for Bayesian CFA. Study 1 compared the empirical distributions of pD and DIC under multivariate (i.e., inverse Wishart) and separation strategy (SS) priors. The former treats the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Bayesian Statistics, Goodness of Fit, Factor Analysis
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Myers, Nicholas D.; Ahn, Soyeon; Jin, Ying – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of the number of targets specified on the quality of exploratory factor analysis solutions with a complex underlying structure and incomplete substantive measurement theory. Three Monte Carlo studies were performed based on the ratio of the number of observed variables to the number of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods, Sample Size, Measurement