st: Software update: swain (and swaini)

[John Antonakis <John.Antonakis@unil.ch>]

Hi:

With gratitude Kit Baum, we have made available a software update to 
-swain-, which corrects the SEM chi-square overidentification test in 
small sample sizes or complex models.

The package now includes -swaini- an immediate version of the 
postestimation test, which calculates the corrected chi-square statistic 
using fit data entered manually by the user (i.e., no. of vars, df, 
n-size, and chi-square value). We have also updated the help file.

Here is a description of the command:

      swain and swaini correct the chi-square overidentification test
      (i.e., likelihood ratio test of fit) for structural equation
      models whether with or without latent variables. The chi-square
      statistic is asymptotically correct; however, it does not behave
      as expected in small samples and/or when the model is complex
      (cf. Herzog, Boomsma, & Reinecke, 2007). Thus, particularly in
      situations where the ratio of sample size to the number of
      parameters estimated is relatively small, the chi-square test
      will tend to overreject correctly specified models.  To obtain a
      closer approximation to the distribution of the chi-square
      statistic, Swain (1975) developed a correction; this scaling
      factor, which converges to 1 asymptotically, is multiplied with
      the chi-square statistic. The correction better approximates the
      chi-square distribution resulting in more appropriate Type 1
      reject error rates (see Herzog & Boomsma, 2009; Herzog, et al.,
      2007).

To install swain simply type -ssc install swain- from the Stata command 
line.

Best,
J.

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