Plausible values: How to deal with their limitations

Journal of Applied Measurement

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 320-334

  Monseur, Christian ^a   Adams, Raymond ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 77954666960     PISSN: 15297713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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