Evaluating the error of measurement due to categorical scaling with a measurement invariance approach to confirmatory factor analysis

It has previously been determined that using 3 or 4 points on a categorized response scale will fail to produce a continuous distribution of scores. However, there is no evidence, thus far, revealing the number of scale points that may indeed possess an approximate or sufficiently continuous distrib...

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Main Author: Olson, Brent
Language:en
Published: University of British Columbia 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/332