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Describing the Elephant: Structure and Function in Multivariate Data

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Roderick P. McDonald
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Abstract

There is a unity underlying the diversity of models for the analysis of multivariate data. Essentially, they constitute a family models, most generally nonlinear, for structural/functional relations between variables drawn from a behavior domain.

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factor analysisregressionmultivariate analysiscomponentsoptimal scalingtest theoryitem response theorylinear structural relationsnonlinear models

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Psychometrika , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , December 1986 , pp. 513 - 534
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Copyright © 1986 The Psychometric Society

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