What to do about zero frequency cells when estimating polychoric correlations

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-273

  Savalei, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorical Data; Categorical SEM; Polychoric correlations; Zero frequency cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957863324     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2011.557339     Document Type: Article

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