Toward Improving the Modeling of MTMM Data: A Response to Geiser, Koch, and Eid (2014)

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 524-533

  Castro Schilo, Laura ^a   Widaman, Keith F ^b   Grimm, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

construct validity; CT C(M 1) model; CT CM model; multitrait multimethod (MTMM) analysis; structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CORRELATED METHODS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GENERATING MODELS; MULTI METHODS; SIMULATION STUDIES; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURAL MODELS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84927511870     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: 15328007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2014.919818     Document Type: Article

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