Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research

Companion webpage for confirmatory factor analysis book published by Guilford Press.

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This page contains data and syntax files for most of the examples in the book. It will also

contain Errata and Updates as needed. See Links for CFA and SEM related webpages.

Chapter 2: Common Factor Model and EFA

Chapter 3: Introduction to CFA

	Computing a Residual Matrix and FML
Table 3.2	SAS PROC IML syntax	tab3.2.sas

Chapter 4: Specification and Interpretation of CFA Models

	Two-Factor CFA (Neuroticism, Extraversion)
Figure 4.1	Input Matrix: SDs and Correlations	fig4.1.dat
	Input File for Amos Basic	Ninput2.txt
Table 4.1	LISREL syntax	tab4.1.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab4.1.inp
	EQS syntax	tab4.1.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab4.1.bas
	SAS PROC CALIS syntax	tab4.1.sas
	CFA with Single Indicators: Health Status
Figure 4.3	Input: Raw data	fig4.3.dat
Table 4.5	Mplus syntax	tab4.5.inp

Chapter 5: CFA Model Revision and Comparison

	Input Files
	Raw Data	efa.dat
	Input File for Amos Basic	ecfa.txt
	Three-Factor CFA (Alcohol Motives QN)
Table 5.2	LISREL syntax	tab5.2.ls8
	Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA)
Table 5.6	Mplus syntax	tab5.6.inp
	EFA within CFA
Table 5.7	LISREL syntax	tab5.7.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab5.7.inp
	EQS syntax	tab5.7.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab5.7.bas
	SAS PROC CALIS syntax	tab5.7.sas

Chapter 6: CFA of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices

	MTMM Matrix (Personality Disorders)
Table 6.1	Input Matrix: SDs and Correlations	tab6.1.dat
	Correlated Methods Model
Table 6.2	LISREL syntax	tab6.2.ls8
	Correlated Uniqueness Model
Table 6.3	LISREL syntax	tab6.3.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab6.3.inp
	EQS syntax	tab6.3.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab6.3.bas
	SAS PROC CALIS syntax	tab6.3.sas

Chapter 7: Equality Constraints, Multiple Groups, Mean Structures

	Tau Equivalent and Parallel Indicators
Figure 7.1	Input Matrix: SDs and Correlations	fig7.1.dat
	Input File for Amos Basic	memory.txt
Table 7.2	LISREL syntax (tau equivalence)	tab7.2.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab7.2.inp
	EQS syntax	tab7.2.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab7.2.bas
	SAS PROC CALIS syntax	tab7.2.sas
Table 7.5	LISREL syntax (parallelism)	tab7.5.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab7.5.inp
	EQS syntax	tab7.5.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab7.5.bas
	SAS PROC CALIS syntax	tab7.5.sas
	Longitudinal Measurement Invariance
Figure 7.2	Input Matrix: Ms, SDs, and Correlations	fig7.2.dat
Table 7.8	LISREL syntax	tab7.8.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab7.8.inp
	Multiple Groups CFA (Depression example)
Figure 7.3	Input Matrix: Ms, SDs, and Correlations (females)	fig7.3f.dat
	Input Matrix: Ms, SDs, and Correlations (males)	fig7.3m.dat
	Raw data (used in Mplus syntax)	mddall.dat
	Input File for Amos Basic (females)	depfem.txt
	Input File for Amos Basic (males)	depmale.txt
Table 7.10	LISREL syntax (Equal Form)	tab7.10.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab7.10.inp
	EQS syntax	tab7.10.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab7.10.bas
Table 7.12	LISREL syntax (Equal loadings and intercepts)	tab7.12.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab7.12.inp
	EQS syntax	tab7.12.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab7.12.bas
Table 7.13	LISREL syntax (Fully Invariant)	tab7.13.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab7.13.inp
	EQS syntax	tab7.13.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab7.13.bas
	MIMIC Models (Phobia example)
Figure 7.5	Input Matrix: SDs and Correlations	fig7.5.dat
	Input File for Amos Basic	mimic.txt
Table 7.14	LISREL syntax	tab7.14.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab7.14.inp
	EQS syntax	tab7.14.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab7.14.bas

Chapter 8: Higher-Order CFA, Scale Reliability Evaluation, Formative Indicators

	Higher-Order CFA
Figure 8.1	Input Matrix: SDs and Correlations	fig8.1.dat
	Input File for Amos Basic	coping.txt
Table 8.2	LISREL syntax	tab8.2.ls8
	Mplus syntax	tab8.2.inp
	EQS syntax	tab8.2.eqs
	Amos Basic syntax	tab8.2.bas
	SAS PROC CALIS syntax	tab8.2.sas
	Scale Reliability Evaluation
Figure 8.2	Input Matrix: SDs and Correlations	fig8.2.dat
Table 8.6	LISREL syntax (Reliability point estimates)	tab8.6.ls8
Table 8.7	LISREL syntax (SEs and confidence intervals)	tab8.7.ls8
Table 8.8	SPSS syntax (SE and CI computation)	tab8.8.sps
	Formative Indicators (Life Stress example)
Figure 8.5	Input Matrix: SDs and Correlations	fig8.5.dat
Table 8.9	Mplus syntax	tab8.9.inp

Chapter 9: Missing, Non-normal, and Categorical Data

	Missing Data
	Raw data input file	cfamiss.dat
Table 9.1	Mplus syntax (Direct ML)	tab9.1.inp
Table 9.2	SAS PROC MI/CALIS syntax (multiple imputation)	tab9.2.sas
Table 9.3	Mplus syntax (multiple imputation)	tab9.3.inp
	Data files for Table 9.3 ex.: impute.dat, data1.dat, data2.dat, data3.dat, data4.dat, data5.dat
	Nonnormal, Continuous Data (Robust ML)
	Raw data input file	nonml.dat
Table 9.5	Mplus syntax	tab9.5.inp
	EQS syntax	tab9.5.eqs
	PRELIS syntax	tab9.5.pr2
	LISREL syntax	tab9.5.ls8
	Categorical Data (Alcoholism example)
	Raw data input file	binary.dat
Table 9.9	Mplus syntax	tab9.9.inp
Table 9.11	Mplus syntax (nested model comparison)	tab9.11.inp
Table 9.14	Amos Basic syntax (bootstrapping)	tab9.14.bas
	SPSS .sav file used in Table 9.14 ex.: nonml.sav

Chapter 10: Statistical Power and Sample Size

	Satorra-Saris method
Table 10.1	LISREL syntax: Step 1	tab10.1a.ls8
	LISREL syntax: Step 2	tab10.1b.ls8
	LISREL syntax: Step 3	tab10.1c.ls8
	SPSS syntax: Step 4	tab10.1.sps
	SAS syntax: Step 4	tab10.1.sas
	Monte Carlo method
Table 10.2	Mplus syntax (no missing data)	tab10.2.inp
Table 10.5	Mplus syntax (missing data)	tab10.5.inp
	Data Generation in Monte Carlo Simulation
Appendix 10.1	SAS syntax	app10.1.sas

Errata (if applicable, file is provided with corrected material)

1. p. 204 (line 10): Each model in Fig. 5.3 has df = 8 (not df = 13)
2. p. 343 (Table 8.6): Headers in LISREL Estimates section misaligned	table86.pdf
3. p. 354 (Fig. 8.3): Printer error, Model C is duplicated for Model E	fig83.pdf
4. pp. 24-25: a and b are erroneously reversed in a few instances
5. p. 402: Y1, not Y5, has the lower item difficulty
6. p. 100 (3rd line from bottom): ln(.429) = -.846
7. p. 105 (3rd line from bottom): [p(p+1)/2]