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2) Of course, if the indicators are strongly correlated, there would not be much room for compensating. On the other hand, very little would be gained by index formation in such a case.

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13) Labelling proportions of individuals being in state 1 on indicator i) and j) Pi and Pj respectively, manifest crossproducts then mean Pij - Pi Pj.