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Confirmatory factor analysis

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Types Of Factor Analysis | Exploratory Factor Analysis | Confirmatory Factor Analysis |

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HGAPS Summer Series Week 4 - Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Writing Review

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Plugin for Model Fit during confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in AMOS

In statistics, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a special form of factor analysis, most commonly used in social research. It is used to test whether measures of a construct are consistent with a researcher's understanding of the nature of that construct. As such, the objective of confirmatory factor analysis is to test whether the data fit a hypothesized measurement model. This hypothesized model is based on theory and/or previous analytic research. CFA was first developed by Jöreskog and has built upon and replaced older methods of analyzing construct validity such as the MTMM Matrix as described in Campbell & Fiske (1959).
    • Exploratory factor analysis 

    • Structural equation modeling 

    • Evaluating model fit