Measurement Invariance for Latent Constructs in Multiple Populations: A Critical View and Refocus

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 954-974

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^b   Li, Cheng Hsien ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

factor loading; latent variable modeling; mean intercept; measurement invariance; model identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867680914     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164412441607     Document Type: Article

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