Peter M. Bentler

On Components, Latent Variables, PLS and Simple Methods: Reactions to Rigdon's Rethinking of PLS

Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives

This article examines the adequacy of the "rules of thumb" conventional cutoff criteria and several new alternatives for various fit indexes used to evaluate model fit in practi...

Comparative fit indexes in structural models.

Normed and nonnormed fit indexes are frequently used as adjuncts to chi-square statistics for evaluating the fit of a structural model. A drawback of existing indexes is that th...

Fit indices in covariance structure modeling: Sensitivity to underparameterized model misspecification.

This study evaluated the sensitivity of maximum likelihood (ML)-, generalized least squares (GLS)-, and asymptotic distribution-free (ADF)-based fit indices to model misspecific...

EQS : structural equations program manual

Choice of structural model via parsimony: A rationale based on precision.

It is shown that, in large samples, the more parsimonious of two competing nested models yields an estimator of the common parameters that has smaller sampling variance. The use...