Testing Structural Equation Models / Edition 1

by Kenneth A. (Alan) Bollen, John Scott Long

Overview

What is the role of fit measures when respecifying a model? Should the means of the sampling distributions of a fit index be unrelated to the size of the sample? Is it better to estimate the statistical power of the chi-square test than to turn to fit indices? Exploring these and related questions, well-known scholars examine the methods of testing structural equation models (SEMS) with and without measurement error, as estimated by such programs as EQS, LISREL and CALIS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803945074
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/01/1993
Series:	SAGE Focus Editions , #154
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Scott Long is Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He teaches quantitative methods both at Indiana University and at the ICSPR Summer Program. His earlier research examined gender differences in the scientific career. In recent years, he has collaborated with Eliza Pavalko, Bernice Pescsolido, John Bancroft, Julia Heiman and others in studies of health and aging, stigma and mental health, and human sexuality.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Kenneth A Bollen and J Scott Long
Multifaceted Conceptions of Fit in Structural Equation Models - J S Tanaka
Monte Carlo Evaluations of Goodness-of-Fit Indices for Structural Equation Models - David W Gerbing and James C Anderson
Some Specification Tests for the Linear Regression Model - J Scott Long and Pravin K Trivedi
Bootstrapping Goodness-of-Fit Measures in Structural Equation Models - Kenneth A Bollen and Robert A Stine
Alternative Ways of Assessing Model Fit - Michael W Browne and Robert Cudeck
Bayesian Model Selection in Structural Equation Models - Adrian E Raftery
Power Evaluations in Structural Equation Models - Willem E Saris and Albert Satorra
Goodness-of-Fit with Categorical and Other Nonnormal Variables - Bengt O Muthén
Some New Covariance Structure Model Improvement Statistics - P M Bentler and Chih-Ping Chou
Nonpositive Definite Matrices in Structural Modeling - Werner Wothke
Testing Structural Equation Models - Karl G Jöreskog