Commentary on Meehl and Waller's (2002) path analysis and verisimilitude

Psychological Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 316-322

  Mulaik, Stanley A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY;

HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 85047673661     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.7.3.316     Document Type: Review

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