Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis in R - A tutorial in measurement invariance with continuous and ordinal indicators

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Hirschfeld, Gerrit ^a   Von Brachel, Ruth ^b  

^a Datteln Children's Hospital   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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