A unified approach to exploratory factor analysis with missing data, nonnormal data, and in the presence of outliers

Psychometrika

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-122

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Marshall, Linda L ^b   Bentler, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivariance; Invariance; Missing data; Nonnormal data; Outliers; Simple structure; Standard errors; Test statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036011445     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294711     Document Type: Article

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