The multigroup common factor model with minimal uniqueness constraints and the power to detect uniform bias

Applied Psychological Measurement

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 233-246

  Hessen, David J ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^b   Wicherts, Jelte M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor model; Exploratory factor analysis; Measurement invariance; Multigroup common factor analysis; Power; Uniform bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646200673     PISSN: 01466216     EISSN: 15523497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146621605279760     Document Type: Article

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