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.
Revista:
CIENCIA ergo-sum

ISSN: 1405-0269

Ano de publicación: 2006

Volume: 13

Número: 2

Páxinas: 126-132

Tipo: Artigo

Outras publicacións en: CIENCIA ergo-sum

Resumo

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.