Wolfgang Langer - The Assessment of Fit in the Class of Structural Equation Models: A Pathway out of the Jungle of Fit Indexes

Content: What is the problem?; Tanaka´s criteria for a "good fit index"; Subjects of this presentation; SEM example from the German General Social Survery of 1996; Short summary of the most popular relative fit indices and their properties discovered by Monte-Carlo-Simulation Studies; A short outlook on Steiger´s RMSEA and Hoelter´s CN; Conclusions for a practical data analysis