The effects of educational diversity in a national sample of law students: Fitting multilevel latent variable models in data with categorical indicators

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-331

  Gottfredson, Nisha C ^a   Panter, A T ^a   Daye, Charles E ^a   Allen, Walter F ^b   Wightman, Linda F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

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EID: 70449602270     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273170902949719     Document Type: Article

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