Expanding Statistical Frontiers in Sexual Science: Taxometric, Invariance, and Equivalence Testing.
Sexual scientists must choose from among myriad methodological and analytical approaches when investigating their research questions. How can scholars learn whether sexualities are discrete or continuous? How is sexuality constructed? And to what extent are sexuality-related groups similar to or dif...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Sex Research Vol. 56; no. 4/5; pp. 475 - 511 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May/Jun2019
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