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The General LISREL MODEL and Non-normality Ulf H. Olsson Professor of Statistics
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Ulf H. Olsson Bivariate normal distribution
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Ulf H. Olsson Positive vs. Negative Skewness Exhibit 1 These graphs illustrate the notion of skewness. Both PDFs have the same expectation and variance. The one on the left is positively skewed. The one on the right is negatively skewed.
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Ulf H. Olsson Low vs. High Kurtosis Exhibit 1 These graphs illustrate the notion of kurtosis. The PDF on the right has higher kurtosis than the PDF on the left. It is more peaked at the center, and it has fatter tails.
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Ulf H. Olsson Non-normality Skewness Kurtosis Ordinal Scale Interval Scale
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Ulf H. Olsson ML and NWLS k is the number of manifest variables. D is the duplication matrix (Magnus and Neudecker 1988) and is the ML estimate.
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Ulf H. Olsson Making Numbers S: sample covariance θ: parameter vector σ(θ): model implied covariance
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Ulf H. Olsson Making Numbers
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Ulf H. Olsson Making Numbers
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Ulf H. Olsson Making Numbers
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Ulf H. Olsson Making Numbers
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Ulf H. Olsson Making Numbers Generally
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Ulf H. Olsson Estimation 1) No AC provided ML or GLS 2) AC provided ML WLS (ADF) 3) Continuous or Ordinal
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Ulf H. Olsson Examples Efficacy data From raw data to Model SPSS-file PSF-file
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