Comparing interval estimates for small sample ordinal CFA models

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Natesan, Prathiba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Confidence intervals; Confirmatory factor analysis; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Ordinal data analysis; Simulation; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947239488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01599     Document Type: Article

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