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What does CFA stand for?

Confirmatory Factor Analysis


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Other statistical enhancements include Best Subsets Regression, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and additional non-parametric testing algorithms.
We used confirmatory factor analysis based on the principal-components analysis method to confirm the grouping of items within the six LOTCA subscales.
The resulting model was tested using Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
In this study, confirmatory factor analysis was used because SCOPES was designed to correspond directly to the Academic Development, Career Development, and Personal/Social Development standards of the National Standards for School Counseling Programs (Campbell & Dahir, 1997).
The model was entered into a confirmatory factor analysis using LISREL.
Overview of Structural Equation Modeling The analyses used in this study were based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and SEM.
Confirmatory Factor Analysis Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using EQS (Bentler, 2006) was next performed on the 16 items to verify the factor structure that evolved from the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) (see Gerbing & Hamilton, 1996, for a detailed overview of the advantages of using CFA on the same EFA sample).
As a result, in our confirmatory factor analysis models, we used the robust maximum likelihood (MLR) estimator, which adjusts standard errors and model fit indices to account for nonnormality in the data (Satorra & Bentler, 1994).

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