Uniqueness does not Imply Identification

1 November 1985

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

Vol. 14 (2) , 155-163
https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124185014002003

Abstract

Many authors suggest that conditions originally presented by Howe (1955) and later by Jöreskog (1979) are sufficient to identify confirmatory factor analysis models. In this note we show that these are sufficient conditions for unique factor loadings under rotation but they are not sufficient for model identification. This is demonstrated with an extended example.

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