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Statistically evaluating person-oriented principles revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2010

Sonya K. Sterba*
Affiliation:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel J. Bauer
Affiliation:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Sonya K. Sterba, L. L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 3270, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270; E-mail: ssterba@email.unc.edu.

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