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Huang, Jiajing; Liang, Xinya; Yang, Yanyun – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
In Bayesian structural equation modeling (BSEM), prior settings may affect model fit, parameter estimation, and model comparison. This simulation study was to investigate how the priors impact evaluation of relative fit across competing models. The design factors for data generation included sample sizes, factor structures, data distributions, and…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Structural Equation Models, Goodness of Fit, Sample Size
Garcia, Leandro Sumida; Silva, Camila Mariane Costa – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
Social media technologies were introduced among the modern society and are part of its routine in many ways--knowledge acquisition and sharing, interpersonal relationships, media diffusion--sometimes complementing and even substituting tools that were specifically designed for similar activities. This research compares social media sites and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Media, Organizational Communication, Comparative Analysis
Fan, Xitao – 1995
This paper, in a fashion easy to follow, illustrates the interesting relationship between structural equation modeling and canonical correlation analysis. Although computationally somewhat inconvenient, representing canonical correlation as a structural equation model may provide some information which is not available from conventional canonical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Mathematical Models, Research Methodology
Schumacker, Randall E.; Cheevatanarak, Suchittra – 2000
Monte Carlo simulation compared chi-square statistics, parameter estimates, and root mean square error of approximation values using normal and elliptical estimation methods. Three research conditions were imposed on the simulated data: sample size, population contamination percent, and kurtosis. A Bentler-Weeks structural model established the…
Descriptors: Chi Square, Comparative Analysis, Estimation (Mathematics), Monte Carlo Methods
Hau, Kit-Tai – 1996
This study evaluated the stage structure of several quasi-simplex and non-simplex models of moral development in two domains of moral development in a British and a Chinese sample. Analyses were based on data reported by Sachs (1992): the Chinese sample consisted of 1,005 students from grade 9 to post-college, and the British sample consisted of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages
Brodnick, Robert; Rogers, Mike – Online Submission, 2004
This study explored institutional similarities using modelling techniques in the national university population. Measures of proximity in national datasets shed light on the dynamics of peer group construction. Factors were identified that provide the foundation for peer similarities. Structural equation modelling allowed testing of fit across…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Validity, Institutional Research, Structural Equation Models
Schumacker, Randall E. – 1992
Several goodness of fit (GOF) criteria have been developed to assist the researcher in interpreting structural equation models. However, the determination of GOF for structural equation models is not as straightforward as that for other statistical approaches in multivariate procedures. The four GOF criteria used across the commonly used…
Descriptors: Chi Square, Comparative Analysis, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics)
Knight, William E. – 1992
This study investigated differences in freshmen to senior student general education gains across institutions of higher education, with varying patterns of general education requirements using a mixed-effect structural equation model. The subjects were 6,409 students at 34 colleges and universities nationwide. Study procedures used American…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Analysis
Mandeville, Garrett K.; Kennedy, Eugene – 1993
This paper reports the results of a study of changes in the social distribution of mathematics achievement for a cohort of public high school students. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) the study sought to identify school characteristics which were significantly correlated with changes in achievement differences from grade 9 to grade 11…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Correlation