Methodological Issues in the Search for a Factor Model: Exploration through Confirmation.

Kroonenberg, Pieter M.; Lewis, Charles

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Publication Date: 1982

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Methodological Issues in the Search for a Factor Model: Exploration through Confirmation.

Kroonenberg, Pieter M.; Lewis, Charles

Journal of Educational Statistics, v7 n2 p69-89 Sum 1982

Procedures suggested by Joreskog for performing exploratory factor analysis were evaluated. An in-depth analysis of psychological test scores of junior high school students was conducted. Procedures using exploratory and confirmatory techniques were found to produce misleading results in some instances. (Author/DWH)

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Factor Analysis, Junior High Schools, Psychological Testing, Statistical Bias

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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