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New developments in LISREL: analysis of ordinal variables using polychoric correlations and weighted least squares

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of Uppsala, P.O. Box 513, S-75120, Uppsala, Sweden

    Karl G. Jöreskog

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The material of this article was presented at the International Conference on Social Science Methodology in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, May 30–June 3, 1988. The research reported has been supported by the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSFR) under the program Multivariate Statistical Analysis.

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Jöreskog, K.G. New developments in LISREL: analysis of ordinal variables using polychoric correlations and weighted least squares. Qual Quant 24, 387–404 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00152012

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