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More “Tricks of the Trade”: Reparameterizing LISREL Models using Negative Variances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Donald Philip Green and
Bradley L. Palmquist
Donald Philip Green*
Affiliation:
Yale University
Bradley L. Palmquist
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
*
Requests for reprints should be sent to Donald Green, 124 Prospect Street, Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-3532.
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Abstract

This paper shows how LISREL may be used to estimate simplex models which impose constraints on the variances of endogenous variables. This technique allows us to estimate both the parameters and the standard errors of the correlated measurement error model proposed by Wiley and Wiley (1974).

Keywords

analysis of covariance structuresnonrandom measurement errorreliability

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Type
Computational Psychometrics
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , March 1991, pp. 137 - 145
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

We would like to thank Jim Wiley for his many helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft. We are grateful also to an anonymous reviewer for supplying the EQS program presented in Figure 4.

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