Modeling Growth in Latent Variables Using a Piecewise Function

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 370-397

  Kohli, Nidhi ^a   Harring, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84879000684     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2013.778191     Document Type: Article

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