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Three Cs in measurement models: causal indicators, composite indicators, and covariatesKenneth A Bollen
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3210, USA
Psychol Methods 16:265-84. 2011..A running empirical example on self-perceived health illustrates our major points...
Structural equation models and the quantification of behaviorKenneth A Bollen
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:15639-46. 2011..We suggest that the general nature of the model is capable of handling a variety of problems in the quantification of behavior, where the researcher has sufficient knowledge to formulate hypotheses...- Practical application of the vanishing tetrad test for causal indicator measurement models: an example from health-related quality of lifeKenneth A Bollen
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, CB 3210 Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3210, USA
Stat Med 28:1524-36. 2009..We illustrated the VTT by looking at multiple items from a health related quality of life instrument that seem more likely to cause the latent variable rather than the other way around... 
Interpretational confounding is due to misspecification, not to type of indicator: comment on Howell, Breivik, and Wilcox (2007)Kenneth A Bollen
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3210, USA
Psychol Methods 12:219-28; discussion 238-45. 2007..It is the validity of a model not the type of indicator that determines the potential for interpretational confounding...- Latent variables in psychology and the social sciencesKenneth A Bollen
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, CB 3210 Hamilton
Annu Rev Psychol 53:605-34. 2002..It concludes with an evaluation of the different definitions of latent variables and their properties... - A tetrad test for causal indicatorsK A Bollen
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599 3210, USA
Psychol Methods 5:3-22. 2000.... - A structural equation model of the developmental origins of blood pressureD L Dahly
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Int J Epidemiol 38:538-48. 2009..Birth-size is a problematic proxy for the fetal environment, and regression models testing for associations between birth-size and blood pressure have been criticized... - Quality, accessibility, and contraceptive use in rural TanzaniaT A Mroz
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27516 3997, USA
Demography 36:23-40. 1999..Future research that uncovers the determinants of perceptions of both community-level and individual-level quality could provide key insights for developing effective and efficient family planning programs... - Socio-economic status, permanent income, and fertility: a latent-variable approachKenneth A Bollen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Popul Stud (Camb) 61:15-34. 2007..The results have implications beyond this specific dependent variable, providing evidence on the sensitivity of microanalyses to the treatment of long-term economic status... - The role of coding time in estimating and interpreting growth curve modelsJeremy C Biesanz
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1202 West Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706 1696, USA
Psychol Methods 9:30-52. 2004..Recommendations include coding time to produce readily interpretable estimates and graphing lower order effects across time with appropriate confidence intervals to help illustrate and understand the growth process...