The impact of misspecified item parceling on representing latent variables in covariance structure modeling: A simulation study

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-127

  Kim, Sooyeon ^a   Hagtvet, Knut A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 0042937116     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328007SEM1001_5     Document Type: Article

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