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Haiyan Liu; Wen Qu; Zhiyong Zhang; Hao Wu – Grantee Submission, 2022
Bayesian inference for structural equation models (SEMs) is increasingly popular in social and psychological sciences owing to its flexibility to adapt to more complex models and the ability to include prior information if available. However, there are two major hurdles in using the traditional Bayesian SEM in practice: (1) the information nested…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Structural Equation Models, Statistical Inference, Statistical Distributions
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Daniel Seddig – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
The latent growth model (LGM) is a popular tool in the social and behavioral sciences to study development processes of continuous and discrete outcome variables. A special case are frequency measurements of behaviors or events, such as doctor visits per month or crimes committed per year. Probability distributions for such outcomes include the…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Crime
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Ke-Hai Yuan; Ling Ling; Zhiyong Zhang – Grantee Submission, 2024
Data in social and behavioral sciences typically contain measurement errors and do not have predefined metrics. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is widely used for the analysis of such data, where the scales of the manifest and latent variables are often subjective. This article studies how the model, parameter estimates, their standard errors…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Computation, Social Science Research, Error of Measurement
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Ke-Hai Yuan; Ling Ling; Zhiyong Zhang – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Data in social and behavioral sciences typically contain measurement errors and do not have predefined metrics. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is widely used for the analysis of such data, where the scales of the manifest and latent variables are often subjective. This article studies how the model, parameter estimates, their standard errors…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Computation, Social Science Research, Error of Measurement
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Kim, Seohyun; Lu, Zhenqiu; Cohen, Allan S. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2018
Bayesian algorithms have been used successfully in the social and behavioral sciences to analyze dichotomous data particularly with complex structural equation models. In this study, we investigate the use of the Polya-Gamma data augmentation method with Gibbs sampling to improve estimation of structural equation models with dichotomous variables.…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Structural Equation Models, Computation, Social Science Research
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Li, Jian; Lomax, Richard G. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
Using Monte Carlo simulations, this research examined the performance of four missing data methods in SEM under different multivariate distributional conditions. The effects of four independent variables (sample size, missing proportion, distribution shape, and factor loading magnitude) were investigated on six outcome variables: convergence rate,…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Structural Equation Models, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
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Zhang, Zhiyong; Lai, Keke; Lu, Zhenqiu; Tong, Xin – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Despite the widespread popularity of growth curve analysis, few studies have investigated robust growth curve models. In this article, the "t" distribution is applied to model heavy-tailed data and contaminated normal data with outliers for growth curve analysis. The derived robust growth curve models are estimated through Bayesian…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Statistical Distributions