Moving Forward in the Debate on Causal Indicators: Rejoinder to Comments

Measurement

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 63-74

  Bainter, Sierra A ^a   Bollen, Kenneth A ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 84928655000     PISSN: 15366367     EISSN: 15366359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15366367.2015.1016349     Document Type: Article

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