The Robustness of Test Statistics to Nonnormality and Specification Error in Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Psychological Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 16-29

  Curran, Patrick J ^a   West, Stephen G ^b   Finch, John F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001922927     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.1.1.16     Document Type: Article

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