A Faster Procedure for Estimating SEMs Applying Minimum Distance Estimators With a Fixed Weight Matrix

This study presents a separable nonlinear least squares (SNLLS) implementation of the minimum distance (MD) estimator employing a fixed-weight matrix for estimating structural equation models (SEMs). In contrast to the standard implementation of the MD estimator, in which the complete set of paramet...

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Published in:Structural equation modeling 2023-03, Vol.30 (2), p.214-221
Main Authors: Kreiberg, David, Zhou, Xingwu
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