Orthogonalizing Through Residual Centering: Extended Applications and Caveats

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-46

  Geldhof, G John ^a   Pornprasertmanit, Sunthud ^b   Schoemann, Alexander M ^b   Little, Todd D ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

collinearity; confirmatory factor analysis; covariates; latent interaction; residual centering; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871319048     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164412445473     Document Type: Article

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