IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28
Specifies that any sample covariances that are read from a data file are unbiased estimates of the corresponding population covariances. In other words, the input covariance matrix is assumed to be made up of sums of squares and cross products, divided by N - 1 (rather than by N).
Syntax
object.InputUnbiasedMoments ()
The InputUnbiasedMoments method syntax has the following parts:
Part |
Description |
object |
An object of type AmosEngine. |
Placement: [1].
Default
Sample covariances read from a data file are assumed to be (biased) maximum likelihood estimates.
Remarks
FitUnbiasedMoments and InputUnbiasedMoments have different effects. InputUnbiasedMoments specifies that any sample covariance matrix that is read from a data file is an unbiased estimate. FitUnbiasedMoments, on the other hand, tells Amos to fit the model to the sample covariance matrix (
in Appendices A and B) that is an unbiased estimate.
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