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Edward E. Rigdon, Carl E. Ferguson, Jr., The Performance of the Polychoric Correlation Coefficient and Selected Fitting Functions in Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Ordinal Data, Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Nov., 1991), pp. 491-497
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