On Specifying the Null Model for Incremental Fit Indices in Structural Equation Modeling

Psychological Methods

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 16-37

  Widaman, Keith F ^a   Thompson, Jane S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0041777702     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.8.1.16     Document Type: Article

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