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ArticlePsychometrika2016

Identification of Confirmatory Factor Analysis Models of Different Levels of Invariance for Ordered Categorical Outcomes.

Hao Wu, Ryne Estabrook

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Article in Psychometrika, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 193 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hao WuBoston College, Chestnut Hill, USA. hao.wu.5@bc.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6471-1774
Ryne EstabrookNorthwestern University, Evanston, USA.

Funding

PERSONALITY AND WELL BEING TRAJECTORIES IN ADULTHOODR01AG018436 · NIA · PURDUE UNIVERSITY WEST LAFAYETTE · PI MROCZEK, DANIEL K. · 2000 to 2020
$6.7M
Research Education in Statistical Genetics of Substance AbuseR25DA026119 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI NEALE, MICHAEL CHURTON · 2008 to 2018
$3.2M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG018436NIDA NIH HHS R25 DA026119
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article considers the identification conditions of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models for ordered categorical outcomes with invariance of different types of parameters across groups. The current practice of invariance testing is to first identify a model with only configural invariance and then test the invariance of parameters based on this identified baseline model. This approach is not optimal because different identification conditions on this baseline model identify the scales of latent continuous responses in different ways. Once an invariance condition is imposed on a parameter, these identification conditions may become restrictions and define statistically non-equivalent models, leading to different conclusions. By analyzing the transformation that leaves the model-implied probabilities of response patterns unchanged, we give identification conditions for models with invariance of different types of parameters without referring to a specific parametrization of the baseline model. Tests based on this approach have the advantage that they do not depend on the specific identification condition chosen for the baseline model.

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Factor Analysis, StatisticalAlgorithmsComputer SimulationData Interpretation, StatisticalPsychometricsinvariance testingmodel identificationordered categorical data

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PMID27402166
PMCPMC5458787

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