Scaling unobservable constructs in social science

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-13

  Bartholomew, David J ^a  

^a The Old Manse   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitude scaling; Factor analysis; Latent class models; Latent trait models; Latent variable models; Logit probit model; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039835226     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00094     Document Type: Article

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