The Impact of Varying the Number of Measurement Invariance Constraints on the Assessment of Between-Group Differences of Latent Means

abstract: Structural equation modeling is potentially useful for assessing mean differences between groups on latent variables (i.e., factors). However, to evaluate these differences accurately, the parameters of the indicators of these latent variables must be specified correctly. The focus of the...

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Other Authors: Xu, Yuning (Author)
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25939