The MACS approach to testing for multigroup invariance of a second-order structure: A walk through the process

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 287-321

  Byrne, Barbara M ^a   Stewart, Sunita M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALYSIS OF MEANS; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; FACTOR STRUCTURE; HIGHER-ORDER; ITEM RESPONSE THEORY; MEASUREMENT ITEMS; SECOND ORDER STRUCTURE; TESTING PROCESS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33744505225     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1302_7     Document Type: Article

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