POLYMAT-C: a comprehensive SPSS program for computing the polychoric correlation matrix

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 884-889

  Lorenzo Seva, Urbano ^a   Ferrando, Pere J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Graded response model; Graded response items; Polychoric correlation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84939777942     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-014-0511-x     Document Type: Article

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