Rescaling and Transforming Continuous Non-Normal Data in Covariance Structure AnalysisAn Essay of Taxonomy

  1. Lévy Mangin, Jean-Pierre 1
  2. Sulé Alonso, Arantxa 2
  1. 1 Université du Québec en Outaouais, Québec
  2. 2 Universidad de León, España.
Revue:
CIENCIA ergo-sum

ISSN: 1405-0269

Année de publication: 2006

Volumen: 13

Número: 2

Pages: 126-132

Type: Article

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Résumé

Based on data compiled from previous research with Covariance-based Structural Equation Models, this paper seeks to introduce a classification of different treatments as well as necessary transformations for observable variables with continuous and ordinal data considered as non-normal.