Exploratory Bi-Factor Analysis

Psychometrika

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 537-549

  Jennrich, Robert I ^a   Bentler, Peter M ^b  

^a UCLA ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bi factor rotation; general factor; gradient projection algorithms; group factor; Holzinger's bi factor method; Schmid Leiman method

Indexed keywords

EID: 80355144629     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-011-9218-4     Document Type: Article

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