Old and new ideas for data screening and assumption testing for exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Flora, David B ^a   LaBrish, Cathy ^a   Chalmers, R Philip ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Exploratory factor analysis; Item factor analysis; Structural equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867053350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00055     Document Type: Review

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