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Ye-Mao Xia1, Xin-Yuan Song, Sik-Yum Lee
1Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Abstract:
Structural equation modelling has been widely applied in behavioural, educational, medical, social, and psychological research. The classical maximum likelihood estimate is vulnerable to outliers and non-normal data. In this paper, a robust estimation method for the nonlinear structural equation model is proposed. This method gives more weight to data that are likely to occur based on the structure of the posited model, and effectively downweights the influence of outliers. An algorithm is proposed to obtain the robust estimator. Asymptotic properties of the proposed method are investigated, which include the asymptotic distribution of the estimator, and some statistics for hypothesis testing. Results from a simulation study and a real data example show that our procedure is effective.
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