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Research Articles

Measurement Invariance is Not Sufficient for Meaningful and Valid Group Comparisons: A Note on Robitzsch and Lüdtke

Pages 494-497 | Received 05 Aug 2023, Accepted 29 Aug 2023, Published online: 16 Feb 2024

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