Exploratory Bifactor Analysis of the WJ-III Cognitive in Adulthood via the Schmid-Leiman Procedure

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 330-341

  Dombrowski, Stefan C ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattell Horn Carroll theory; exploratory bifactor analysis; general intelligence; higher order factor analysis; Schmid Leiman orthogonalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901381428     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282913508243     Document Type: Article

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