Model fit in structural equation models with censored, ordinal, and dichotomous variables: Testing vanishing tetrads

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Hipp, John R ^a,b   Bollen, Kenneth A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Carolina Struct Equat MRG ^*  (United States)

^c Odum Institute for Research in Social Science   (United States)

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EID: 84862038934     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0081-1750.2003.00133.x     Document Type: Review

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