Accuracy of the parallel analysis procedure with polychoric correlations

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 748-759

  Cho, Sun Joo ^a   Li, Feiming ^b   Bandalos, Deborah ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Parallel analysis; Pearson correlation; Polychoric correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350127949     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164409332229     Document Type: Article

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