On the use of confirmatory factor analysis in personality research

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 291-293

  Raykov, Tenko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Model fit assessment; Non centrality; Power; Root mean square error of approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031993009     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00159-1     Document Type: Article

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