Testing the assumptions underlying tetrachoric correlations

DOI10.1007/BF02294408zbMath0718.62125OpenAlexW2110108844MaRDI QIDQ2639517

Charles Hofacker, Bengt O. Muthén

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02294408

zbMATH Keywords

normalityfactor analysisdichotomous variablesLISCOMPone-degree of freedom chi-square tests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypothesis testing in multivariate analysis (62H15) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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