RMSEA, CFI, and TLI in structural equation modeling with ordered categorical data: The story they tell depends on the

Yan Xia1, Yanyun Yang2

  • 1T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. yxia@asu.edu.

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