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Some Properties of Hoelter's CN

Year: 1988

Type: article

Abstract: Reviews, critiques, and simulation studies are available for the chi-square and other measures of goodness of fit for structural equation models. The main exception is Hoelter's critical N (CN) statistic. In this article we present some of the properties of CN, explain why a fixed cutoff value for CN often favors large samples over small ones, and illustrate some of these characteristics with simulated and empirical data. We also describe the ambiguities involved in treating CN as a gauge of the power of the chi-square test.

Source: Sociological Methods & Research

DOI: 10.1177/0049124188016004003

Authors: KENNETH A. BOLLEN, JERSEY LIANG

Institutions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Psychometric Methodologies and Testing

Subfield: Management Science and Operations Research

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2043918891

FWCI: 3.254

Cites: 15

Cited by: 70

Related to: 10