Covariance Structure Analysis: Statistical Practice, Theory, and Directions

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue , 1996, Pages 563-592

  Bentler, Peter M ^a   Dudgeon, Paul ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

EQS; Latent variables; LISREL; Multivariate analysis; Structural modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000045336     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.47.1.563     Document Type: Article

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