The recent JMR article and comments by Fornell and Larcker and by Bagozzi on the evaluation of structural models are discussed. A series of simulations demonstrates that the response of the chi square statistic to changes in “theory” and “measurement” does not show the consistent pattern reported by Fornell and Larcker.
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