Peter Bentler
Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Statistics

4627 Franz Hall
310-825-2893
bentler@ucla.edu

Research Interests: structural equation modeling, factor analysis, reliability theory and their application 

BENTLER CV in PDF format

2005 Sells Award for Outstanding Career Contributions to Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology.

2007 Co-recipient, with Karl Jöreskog, American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology.

Research/Scholarship

Education

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1964, Stanford University
M.S., Social Psychology, 1961, University of Pittsburgh
B.A., Anthropology/Sociology, 1958, University of California, Los Angeles  

Selected Publications

Bentler, P. M. (2005).  Latent growth curves.  In J. Werner. (Ed.),  Zeitreihenanalysen, (pp. 13-36).  Berlin: Logos.

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.

Savalei, V., & Bentler, P. M. (2005). A statistically justified pairwise ML method for incomplete nonnormal data: A comparison with direct ML and pairwise ADF. Structural Equation Modeling, 12, 183-214.

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.

Bentler, P. M. (2006). Maximal reliability of unit-weighted composites via covariance structure analysis. In J. –P. Lévy Mangin (Ed.), Modelización con estructuras de covarianzas en ciencias sociales (pp. 491-499). La Coruna, Spain: Netbiblo.

Jackson, A. P., Bentler, P. M., & Franke, T. M. (2006). Employment and parenting among current and former welfare recipients. Journal of Social Service Research, 33(2), 13-26.

Kim, K. H., & Bentler, P. M. (2006). Data modeling: Structural equation modeling. In J. L. Green, G. Camilli, P. B. Elmore, A. Skukauskaite, & E. Grace (Eds.), Handbook of complementary methods in education research (pp. 161-175). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Savalei, V., & Bentler, P. M. (2006). Structural equation modeling. In R. Grover & M. Vriens (Eds.), The handbook of marketing research: Uses, misuses, and future advances (pp. 330-364). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2006). Asymptotic robustness of standard errors in multilevel structural equation models. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 97, 1121-1141.

Yuan, K.-H., & Bentler, P. M. (2006). Mean comparison: Manifest variable versus latent variable. Psychometrika, 71, 139-159.

Bentler, P. M. (2007). Can scientifically usefully hypotheses be tested with correlations? American Psychologist, 62, 772-782.

Bentler, P. M. (2007). Covariance structure models for maximal reliability of unit-weighted composites.  In S. –Y. Lee (Ed.), Handbook of latent variable and related models (pp. 1-19). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Bentler, P. M. (2007). On tests and indices for evaluating structural models. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 825-829.

Hayashi, K.., Bentler, P. M., & Yuan, K. –H. (2007).  On the likelihood ratio test for the number of factors in exploratory factor analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 14, 505-526.

Kim, J., Zhu, W., Chang, L., Bentler, P. M., & Ernst, T. (2007). Unified structural equation modeling approach for the analysis of multisubject multivariate functional data. Human Brain Mapping, 28, 85-93.

Stein, J. A., Nyamathi, A. M., Ullman, J., & Bentler, P. M. (2007).  Impact of marriage on HIV/AIDS risk behaviors among impoverished at-risk couples:  A multilevel latent variable approach.  AIDS & Behavior, 11, 87-98.

Yuan, K. –H., & Bentler, P. M. (2007). Structural equation modeling.  In C. R. Rao & S. Sinharay (Eds.), Handbook of statistics 26 Psychometrics (pp. 297-358). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Yuan, K. –H., & Bentler, P. M. (2007). Robust procedures in structural equation modeling. In S. –Y. Lee (Ed.), Handbook of latent variable and related models (pp. 367-397). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Yuan, K. –H., & Bentler, P. M. (2007). Multilevel covariance structure analysis by fitting multiple single-level models. In Y. Xie (Ed.), Sociological methodology 2007 (vol. 37, pp. 53-82). New York: Blackwell.

Yuan, K. –H., Hayashi, K., & Bentler, P. M. (2007). Normal theory likelihood ratio statistic for mean and covariance structure analysis under alternative hypotheses. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 98, 1262-1282.

Hayashi, K., Bentler, P. M., & Yuan, K. –H. (2008). Structural equation modeling. In C. R. Rao, J. Miller, & D. C. Rao (Eds.), Handbook of statistics 27 Epidemiology & medical statistics (pp. 395-428).  Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Editorial Boards

Applied Psychological Measurement; Archives of Sexual Behav­ior; Computa­tion­al Statistics & Data Analysis; Journal of Health Psychology; Multivariate Behavioral Research; Prevention Sciences; Psycho­metrika; Socio­logical Methods & Research; Structural Equation Modeling.

Professional Services

President, Western Psychological Association, 2007-08