Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis: Locating the invariant referent sets

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-113

  French, Brian F ^a   Finch, W Holmes ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; DATA EXAMPLES; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; MODEL IDENTIFICATION; MULTI-GROUP; RECENT RESEARCHES; SIMULATION STUDIES; TRUE POSITIVE;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 41149095165     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705510701758349     Document Type: Article

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