Improving your exploratory factor analysis for ordinal data: A demonstration using FACTOR

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Baglin, James ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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