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When should you add factor loadings?

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Sylvia H Paz posted on Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 5:30 pm

When does it make sense to add factor loadings given mod indices (2)?

Linda K. Muthen posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 8:35 am

If the cross-loading is substantively meaningful and the modification index is larger than 3.8.

Sylvia H Paz posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 - 1:20 pm

Thanks. So what does this exactly mean? And what do you do next with these variables if the model fit improves?

Linda K. Muthen posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 8:05 am

You may find our Topic 1 course video helpful. In it we go through an EFA and discuss cross-loadings. Also Timothy Brown's book on CFA seems to get good reviews.