The effect of error correlation on interfactor correlation in psychometric measurement

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-117

  Westfall, Peter H ^a   Henning, Kevin S S ^a   Howell, Roy D ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Fit statistics; Latent variable; Measurement error; Structural equation models

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRELATION; IDENTIFIABILITY; LATENT FACTOR; LATENT VARIABLE; PARAMETER PARSIMONY; PARSIMONIOUS MODELING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

EID: 84865657904     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2012.634726     Document Type: Article

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