Should researchers use single indicators, best indicators, or multiple indicators in structural equation models?
Open Access
- 22 October 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Vol. 12 (1), 159
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-159
Abstract
Structural equation modeling developed as a statistical melding of path analysis and factor analysis that obscured a fundamental tension between a factor preference for multiple indicators and path modeling’s openness to fewer indicators.Keywords
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