Assessing the goodness of fit of a latent variable model for ordinal data

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Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 337-361

  Cagnone, Silvia ^a   Mignani, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chi square test; Latent variables; Ordinal data; Residuals; Sparseness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866020497     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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