Dealing with extreme response style in cross-cultural research: A restricted latent class factor analysis approach

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-47

  Morren, Meike ^a   Gelissen, John P T M ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 80855138741     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: 14679531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9531.2011.01238.x     Document Type: Article

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