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penalty function

penalty function

a weight applied to a statistic or index that lowers its value because of some undesired characteristic. In structural equation modeling, for example, several indices used to assess goodness of fit include such a mechanism to downweight the index when a researcher’s model exhibits a high level of complexity.

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