The reduction of skewness and kurtosis of observed variables by data transformation: Effect on factor structure;Atenuación de la asimetría y de la curtosis de las puntuaciones observadas mediante transformaciones de variables: Incidencia sobre la estructura factorial

Psicologica

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 205-227

  Ayán, María Noel Rodríguez ^a,c   Díaz, Miguel Angel Ruiz ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

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