Evaluation of scale reliability with binary measures using latent variable modeling

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 265-279

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Dimitrov, Dimiter M ^b   Asparouhov, Tihomir ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Muthén and Muthen ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISCRETE DATA; INTERVAL ESTIMATION; ITEM SETS; LATENT VARIABLE MODELING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTI-ITEM; SCALE RELIABILITY;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 77951663165     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511003659417     Document Type: Article

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