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Pairwise stochastic approximation for confirmatory factor analysis of categorical data 用于分类数据确证因子分析的成对随机近似法

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1111/bmsp.12347

Giuseppe Alfonzetti, Ruggero Bellio, Yunxiao Chen, Irini Moustaki

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