A comparison of confirmatory factor analysis of binary data on the basis of tetrachoric correlations and of probability-based covariances: A simulation study

Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics

Volumn 89, Issue , 2015, Pages 273-292

  Schweizer, Karl ^a   Ren, Xuezhu ^b   Wang, Tengfei ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Binary data; Confirmatory factor analysis; Congeneric model; Link function; Probability based covariance; Tetrachoric correlation; Weighted congeneric model

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING;

BINARY DATA; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; DATA FITS; HIGH QUALITY; LINK FUNCTIONS; MARGINALS; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMULATION STUDIES;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84915825899     PISSN: 21941009     EISSN: 21941017     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07503-7_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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