The robustness of confidence intervals for coefficient alpha under violation of the assumption of essential parallelism

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 169-191

  Barchard, Kimberly A ^b   Hakstian, A Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031490082     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327906mbr3202_4     Document Type: Article

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