Introduction to Psychometric theory

Introduction to Psychometric Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-335

  Raykov, Tenko ^a   Marcoulides, George A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203841624     Document Type: Book

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