Exploratory Bi-factor Analysis: The Oblique Case

Psychometrika

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 442-454

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bi factor rotation; general factor; gradient projection algorithms; group factor; oblique rotation; orthogonal rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861845498     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-012-9269-1     Document Type: Article

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