Interpretational Confounding of Unobserved Variables in Structural Equation Models
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research
- Vol. 5 (1), 3-52
- https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417600500101
Abstract
The problem of assigning empirical meaning to unobserved variables in structural equation models is discussed. Interpretational confounding is discussed as the assignment of the other than a priori assigned empirical meaning of an unobserved variable. Hypotheses conceming the possibility of interpretational confounding as a concomitant of a lack of point variability in unobserved variables are specified, and corresponding chi-square statistics are given. Numerical illustration is providedKeywords
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