Representation of measurement error in marketing variables: Review of approaches and extension to three-facet designs

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 393-421

  Bagozzi, Richard P ^a   Yi, Youjae ^b   Nassen, Kent D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Construct validity; Method error; Multitrait multimethod matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000287985     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(98)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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