Structural Equation Modeling: Possibilities for Language Learning Researchers1

Language Learning

Volumn 65, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 160-184

  Hancock, Gregory R ^a   Schoonen, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Covariance structure analysis; Modeling relations; Multi group comparisons; SEM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929885340     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12116     Document Type: Article

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