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Cole, David A.; Ciesla, Jeffrey A.; Steiger, James H. – Psychological Methods, 2007
In practice, the inclusion of correlated residuals in latent-variable models is often regarded as a statistical sleight of hand, if not an outright form of cheating. Consequently, researchers have tended to allow only as many correlated residuals in their models as are needed to obtain a good fit to the data. The current article demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Research Design, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Measurement Techniques, Correlation