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ERIC Number: EJ1458965
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1070-5511
EISSN: EISSN-1532-8007
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Computational Options for Standard Errors and Test Statistics with Incomplete Normal and Nonnormal Data in SEM
Victoria Savalei; Yves Rosseel
Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, v29 n2 p163-181 2022
This article provides an overview of different computational options for inference following normal theory maximum likelihood (ML) estimation in structural equation modeling (SEM) with incomplete normal and nonnormal data. Complete data are covered as a special case. These computational options include whether the information matrix is observed or expected, whether the observed information matrix is estimated numerically or using an analytic asymptotic approximation, and whether the information matrix and the outer product matrix of the score vector are evaluated at the saturated or at the structured estimates. A variety of different standard errors and robust test statistics become possible by varying these options. We review the asymptotic properties of these computational variations, and we show how to obtain them using "lavaan" in R. We hope that this article will encourage methodologists to study the impact of the available computational options on the performance of standard errors and test statistics in SEM.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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