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Kim, Eun Sook; Kwok, Oi-man; Yoon, Myeongsun – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Testing factorial invariance has recently gained more attention in different social science disciplines. Nevertheless, when examining factorial invariance, it is generally assumed that the observations are independent of each other, which might not be always true. In this study, we examined the impact of testing factorial invariance in multilevel…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Testing, Social Science Research, Factor Structure
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Van Horn, M. Lee; Smith, Jessalyn; Fagan, Abigail A.; Jaki, Thomas; Feaster, Daniel J.; Masyn, Katherine; Hawkins, J. David; Howe, George – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Regression mixture models, which have only recently begun to be used in applied research, are a new approach for finding differential effects. This approach comes at the cost of the assumption that error terms are normally distributed within classes. This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to explore the effects of relatively minor violations of…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Home Management, Drug Abuse, Research Methodology
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Enders, Craig K.; Tofighi, Davood – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of misspecifying a growth mixture model (GMM) by assuming that Level-1 residual variances are constant across classes, when they do, in fact, vary in each subpopulation. Misspecification produced bias in the within-class growth trajectories and variance components, and estimates were…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Computation, Monte Carlo Methods, Evaluation Methods
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Savalei, Victoria; Bentler, Peter M. – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
This article proposes a new approach to the statistical analysis of pairwisepresent covariance structure data. The estimator is based on maximizing the complete data likelihood function, and the associated test statistic and standard errors are corrected for misspecification using Satorra-Bentler corrections. A Monte Carlo study was conducted to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Monte Carlo Methods