Confirmatory Factor-Analytic Structures and the Theory Construction Process

1 November 1973

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Sociological Methods & Research

Vol. 2 (2) , 131-190
https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417300200201

Abstract

The confirmatory factor-analytic model of analysis is discussed in terms of the general process of constructing social theory-the generation of parameter estimates for a proposed structure, the assessment of a proposed structure, the interpretation of a proposed structure, and example applications. First-order, second-order, and structural equation confirmatory factor models are discussed in relation to Joreskog's model for the estimation of parameters in general theoretical structures, LISREL.

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