A note on confidence intervals for two-group latent mean effect size measures

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 396-406

  Choi, Jaehwa ^a   Fan, Weihua ^b   Hancock, Gregory R ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 70449578723     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273170902938902     Document Type: Article

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