Transcription of Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis
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Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor AnalysisGeneral ConceptsExploratory Factor AnalysisConfirmatory Factor AnalysisNewsom, Spring 2017, Psy495 Psychological Measurement1 General ConceptsFactor Analysis provides information about reliability, item quality, and construct validityGeneral goal is to understand whether and to what extent items from a scale may reflect an underlying hypothetical construct or constructs, known as factorsAn analytic method with high sensitivity to identify problematic items and assess the number of factorsNewsom, Spring 2017, Psy495 Psychological Measurement2 General ConceptsIn general, Factor Analysis methods decompose (or break down) the covariation among items in a measure into meaningful componentsHigher inter-item correlations sh
Jul 29, 2016 · LISREL, EQS, the R package lavaan) EFA procedures usually available in general statistical software packages like SPSS, SAS, Stata etc. Newsom, Spring 2017, Psy 495 Psychological Measurement 33. Confirmatory Factor Analysis CFA is part of a larger analysis framework, called
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