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Direct linkYuan, Ke-Hai; Bentler, Peter M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2004
In mean and covariance structure analysis, the chi-square difference test is often applied to evaluate the number of factors, cross-group constraints, and other nested model comparisons. Let model M[a] be the base model within which model M[b] is nested. In practice, this test is commonly used to justify M[b] even when M[a] is misspecified. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Significance, Item Response Theory, Computation, Statistical Analysis
