Faculty
Ke-Hai Yuan
Professor
Ph.D., UCLA
Profile
Ke-Hai Yuan's research interests are in the areas of psychometric theory and applied multivariate statistics. His research includes structural equation modeling, meta-analysis, multilevel modeling, classical testing theory and item response theory. His teaching interests span courses in psychometric theory, structural equation modeling, item response theory, and simulation based research methodology.
Recent Papers
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (in press). Mean comparison: Manifest variable versus latent variable. Psychometrika.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (in press). Asymptotic robustness of standard errors in multilevel structural equation models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (in press). Structural equation modeling. In C. R. Rao & S. Sinharay (Eds.), Handbook of statistics 27: Psychometrics. Amsterdam: North-Holland
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (in press). Robust procedures in structural equation modeling. In S.-Y. Lee (Ed.), Handbook of structural equation modeling. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Yuan, K.-H., & Chan, W. (in press). On nonequivalence of several procedures of structural equation modeling. Psychometrika.
Yuan, K.-H., & Hayashi, K. (in press). Standard errors in covariance structure models: Asymptotics versus bootstrap. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.
Bentler, P. M., Liang, J., & Yuan, K.-H. (2005). Some recent advances in two-level structural equation models: Estimation, testing and robustness. In J. Fan & G. Li (Eds.), Contemporary multivariate analysis and design of experiments: In celebration of Prof. Kai-Tai Fang's 65th birthday (pp. 99--120). NJ: World Scientific.
Schuster, C., & Yuan, K.-H. (2005). Factor analysis. In K. Kempf-Leonard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of social measurement, volume 2 (pp. 1--8). New York: Elsevier.
Yanagihara, H., & Yuan, K.-H. (2005a). Improved t-statistics in multiple comparisons for nonnormal data. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 58, 209--237.
Yanagihara, H., & Yuan, K.-H. (2005b). Three approximate solutions to the multivariate Behrens-Fisher problem. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, 34, 975--988.
Yuan, K.-H. (2005). Fit indices versus test statistics. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 40, 115--148.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2005). Asymptotic robustness of the normal theory likelihood ratio statistic for two-level covariance structure models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 94, 328--343.
Yuan, K.-H., Bentler, P. M., & Zhang, W. (2005). The effect of skewness and kurtosis on mean and covariance structure analysis: The univariate case and its multivariate implication. Sociological Methods & Research, 34, 249--258.
Yuan, K.-H., & Hayashi, K. (2005). On Muthen's maximum likelihood for two-level covariance structure models. Psychometrika, 70, 147--167.
Yuan, K.-H., & Maxwell, S. (2005). On the post hoc power in testing mean difference. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 30, 141--167.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2004a). On the asymptotic distributions of two statistics for two-level covariance structure models within the class of elliptical distributions. Psychometrika, 69, 437--457.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2004b). On chi-square difference and z tests in mean and covariance structure analysis when the base model is misspecified. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 64, 737--757.
Yuan, K.-H., Bentler, P. M., & Chan, W. (2004). Structural equation modeling with heavy tailed distributions. Psychometrika, 69, 421--436.
Yuan, K.-H., Fung, W. K., & Reise, S. (2004). Three Mahalanobis-distances and their role in assessing unidimensionality. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 57, 151--165.
Yuan, K.-H., Lambert, P. L., & Fouladi, R. T. (2004). Mardia's multivariate kurtosis with missing data. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 39, 413--437.
Yuan, K.-H., & Marshall, L. L. (2004). A new measure of misfit for covariance structure models. Behaviormetrika, 31, 67--90.
Hayashi, K., & Yuan, K.-H. (2003). Robust Bayesian factor analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 10, 525--533.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2003). Eight test statistics for multilevel structural equation models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 44, 89--107.
Yuan, K.-H., Guarnaccia, C. A., & Hayslip, B. J. (2003). A study of the distribution of sample coefficient alpha with the Hopkins Symptom Checklist: Bootstrap versus asymptotics. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 63, 5--23.
Yuan, K.-H., & Hayashi, K. (2003). Bootstrap approach to inference and power analysis based on three statistics for covariance structure models. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 56, 93--110.
Yuan, K.-H., Marshall, L. L., & Bentler, P. M. (2003). Assessing the effect of model misspecifications on parameter estimates in structural equation models. Sociological Methodology, 33, 241--265.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2002a). On robustness of the normal-theory based asymptotic distributions of three reliability coefficient estimates. Psychometrika, 67, 251--259.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2002b). On normal theory based inference for multilevel models with distributional violations. Psychometrika, 67, 539--561.
Yuan, K.-H., & Bushman, B. J. (2002). Combining standardized mean differences using the method of maximum likelihood. Psychometrika, 67, 589--607.
Yuan, K.-H., & Chan, W. (2002). Fitting structural equation models using estimating equations: A model segregation approach. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 55, 41--62.
Yuan, K.-H., Marshall, L. L., & Bentler, P. M. (2002). A unified approach to exploratory factor analysis with missing data, nonnormal data, and in the presence of outliers. Psychometrika, 67, 95--122.
Yuan, K.-H., Marshall, L. L., & Weston, R. (2002). Cross-validation through downweighting influential cases in structural equation modeling. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 55, 125--143.
Contact Information
Office: 123A Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: (574) 631-4619
Email: kyuan@nd.edu