Recovery of weak common factors by maximum likelihood and ordinary least squares estimation

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-56

  Briggs, Nancy E ^a   MacCallum, Robert C ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0037279420     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15327906MBR3801_2     Document Type: Article

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