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ArticlePsychometrika2020

Maximum likelihood estimation of a social relations structural equation model.

Steffen Nestler, Oliver Lüdtke, Alexander Robitzsch

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Article in Psychometrika, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Estimating the reliability of round-robin judgments with social relations confirmatory factor analyses.The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Steffen NestlerInstitut für Psychologie, University of Münster, Fliednerstr. 21, 48149, Münster, Germany. steffen.nestler@uni-muenster.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9724-2441
Oliver LüdtkeLeibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany.
Alexander RobitzschLeibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Kiel, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The social relations model (SRM) is widely used in psychology to investigate the components that underlie interpersonal perceptions, behaviors, and judgments. SRM researchers are often interested in investigating the multivariate relations between SRM effects. However, at present, it is not possible to investigate such relations without relying on a two-step approach that depends on potentially unreliable estimates of the true SRM effects. Here, we introduce a way to combine the SRM with the structural equation modeling (SEM) framework and show how the parameters of our combination can be estimated with a maximum likelihood (ML) approach. We illustrate the model with an example from personality psychology. We also investigate the statistical properties of the model in a small simulation study showing that our approach performs well in most simulation conditions. An R package (called srm) is available implementing the proposed methods.

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Models, StatisticalModels, TheoreticalComputer SimulationLatent Class AnalysisLikelihood FunctionsPsychometricsmaximum likelihood estimationsocial relations modelstructural equation modeling

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PMID33094388
PMCPMC8502151

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