Masking misfit in confirmatory factor analysis by increasing unique variances: a cautionary note on the usefulness of cutoff values of fit indices.

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  2011

• Venue

  Psychological methods

• Publication date

  2011-09-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/a0024917PMID 21843002
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