A modified procedure for parallel analysis of ordered categorical data

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 556-562

  Liu, Lydia Liu ^a,b   Rijmen, Frank ^a  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLASSIFICATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; SOFTWARE; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 48149095689     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.2.556     Document Type: Article

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