Different results on tetrachorical correlations in Mplus and Stata - Stata announces modified procedure

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 157-166

  Günther, Agnes ^a   Höfler, Michael ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MENTAL DISEASE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS;

EID: 33750743107     PISSN: 10498931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpr.193     Document Type: Article

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