Evaluation of Scale Reliability for Unidimensional Measures Using Latent Variable Modeling

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-232

  Raykov, Tenko ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Latent variable modeling; Missing data; Nonnormal distribution; Reliability; Scale; Unidimensionality

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349324616     PISSN: 07481756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0748175609344096     Document Type: Article

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