Spearman's law of diminishing returns in hierarchical models of intelligence for children and adolescents

Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 267-281

  Reynolds, Matthew R ^a   Keith, Timothy Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Higher order models; Intelligence; Nested factor models; Spearman's law of diminishing returns

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947393654     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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