Seeing Perfectly Fitting Factor Models That Are Causally Misspecified: Understanding That Close-Fitting Models Can Be Worse

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 905-926

  Hayduk, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

close fit; factor analysis; factor model; structural equation modeling; testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911456786     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164414527449     Document Type: Article

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