On the similarity between exchangeable profiles: A psychometric model, analytic strategy, and empirical illustration

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 233-247

  Michael Furr, R ^a   Wood, Dustin ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyadic designs; Measurement; Non independence; Personality similarity; Profile similarity; Relationship satisfaction; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874203295     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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