Measurement quality in indicators of compositions. A compositional multitrait-multimethod approach

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 63-74

  Coenders, Germà ^a   Hlebec, Valentina ^b   Kogovsšek, Tina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Compositional data; Correlated uniqueness model; Ipsative data; Multitrait multimethod; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867669362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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