Measurement bias and multidimensionality; an illustration of bias detection in multidimensional measurement models

AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-137

  Jak, Suzanne ^a   Oort, Frans J ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Differential item functioning; Factor analysis; Measurement invariance; MIMIC analysis; Multidimensionality; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953915172     PISSN: 18638171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10182-010-0128-z     Document Type: Article

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