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Vriens, Ingrid; Moors, Guy; Gelissen, John; Vermunt, Jeroen K. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2017
Measuring values in sociological research sometimes involves the use of ranking data. A disadvantage of a ranking assignment is that the order in which the items are presented might influence the choice preferences of respondents regardless of the content being measured. The standard procedure to rule out such effects is to randomize the order of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Social Science Research, Sociology, Structural Equation Models
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Kenny, David A.; Kaniskan, Burcu; McCoach, D. Betsy – Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
Given that the root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) is currently one of the most popular measures of goodness-of-model fit within structural equation modeling (SEM), it is important to know how well the RMSEA performs in models with small degrees of freedom ("df"). Unfortunately, most previous work on the RMSEA and its…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Models, Goodness of Fit, Structural Equation Models