The latent variable approach as applied to transitive reasoning

Cognitive Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 168-180

  Bouwmeester, Samantha ^a   Vermunt, Jeroen K ^b   Sijtsma, Klaas ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Fuzzy trace theory; Latent class model; Latent variable modeling; Linear ordering theory; Transitive reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861657349     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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