Risky tests, verisimilitude, and path analysis

Psychological Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323-337

  Waller, Niels G ^a   Meehl, Paul E ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 0039483097     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.7.3.323     Document Type: Article

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