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Describing the elephant: Structure and function in multivariate data

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  • Roderick McDonald, 1986. "Describing the elephant: Structure and function in multivariate data," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 51(4), pages 513-534, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:psycho:v:51:y:1986:i:4:p:513-534
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02295591
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    12. Roderick McDonald, 1967. "Numerical methods for polynomial models in nonlinear factor analysis," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 32(1), pages 77-112, March.
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    14. A. Shapiro & M. Browne, 1983. "On the investigation of local identifiability: A counterexample," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 48(2), pages 303-304, June.
    15. Roderick McDonald, 1982. "A note on the investigation of local and global identifiability," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 47(1), pages 101-103, March.
    16. Stanley Mulaik & Roderick McDonald, 1978. "The effect of additional variables on factor indeterminacy in models with a single common factor," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 43(2), pages 177-192, June.
    17. R. McDonald, 1974. "Testing pattern hypotheses for covariance matrices," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 39(2), pages 189-201, June.
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    21. Roderick McDonald, 1975. "Testing pattern hypotheses for correlation matrices," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 40(2), pages 253-255, June.
    22. P. Bentler & David Weeks, 1980. "Linear structural equations with latent variables," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 45(3), pages 289-308, September.
    23. Jamshid Etezadi-Amoli & Roderick McDonald, 1983. "A second generation nonlinear factor analysis," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 48(3), pages 315-342, September.
    24. Roderick McDonald, 1968. "A unified treatment of the weighting problem," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 33(3), pages 351-381, September.
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    27. Louis Guttman, 1953. "Image theory for the structure of quantitative variates," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 18(4), pages 277-296, December.
    28. Roderick McDonald, 1983. "Alternative weights and invariant parameters in optimal scaling," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 48(3), pages 377-391, September.
    29. Roderick McDonald, 1962. "A general approach to nonlinear factor analysis," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 27(4), pages 397-415, December.
    30. James Williams, 1978. "A definition for the common-factor analysis model and the elimination of problems of factor score indeterminacy," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 43(3), pages 293-306, September.
    31. Roderick McDonald, 1962. "A note on the derivation of the general latent class model," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 27(2), pages 203-206, June.
    32. Roderick McDonald, 1970. "Three common factor models for groups of variables," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 35(1), pages 111-128, March.
    33. Robert Jennrich & Stephen Robinson, 1969. "A Newton-Raphson algorithm for maximum likelihood factor analysis," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 34(1), pages 111-123, March.
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