Testing Measurement Invariance Using MIMIC: Likelihood Ratio Test With a Critical Value Adjustment

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 469-492

  Kim, Eun Sook ^a   Yoon, Myeongsun ^b   Lee, Taehun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

differential item functioning; measurement bias; measurement invariance; MIMIC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864824631     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164411427395     Document Type: Article

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