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Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held jointly with Division 5 of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, September 5, 1972. The author wishes to thank Walter Emmerich for his clarifying comments and conceptual contributions to this work.
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Messick, S. Beyond structure: In search of functional models of psychological process. Psychometrika 37, 357–375 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02291215
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