Can there be infinitely many models equivalent to a given covariance structure model?

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 142-149

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0008497733     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328007SEM0801_8     Document Type: Article

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