Exploratory Graph Analysis for Factor Retention: Simulation Results for Continuous and Binary Data
| Autor: | Tim Cosemans, Yves Rosseel, Sarah Gelper |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Innovation Technology Entrepr. & Marketing |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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exploratory factor analysis
ACCURACY Applied Mathematics COMPONENTS DIMENSIONALITY RECOVERY simulation exploratory graph analysis binary data CORRELATION-MATRICES Education PSYCHOLOGY NUMBER Mathematics and Statistics PARALLEL ANALYSIS SAMPLE-SIZE Developmental and Educational Psychology MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD Applied Psychology factor retention |
| Zdroj: | EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT Educational and Psychological Measurement, 82(5), 880-910. SAGE Publications Ltd |
| ISSN: | 1552-3888 0013-1644 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00131644211059089 |
| Popis: | Exploratory graph analysis (EGA) is a commonly applied technique intended to help social scientists discover latent variables. Yet, the results can be influenced by the methodological decisions the researcher makes along the way. In this article, we focus on the choice regarding the number of factors to retain: We compare the performance of the recently developed EGA with various traditional factor retention criteria. We use both continuous and binary data, as evidence regarding the accuracy of such criteria in the latter case is scarce. Simulation results, based on scenarios resulting from varying sample size, communalities from major factors, interfactor correlations, skewness, and correlation measure, show that EGA outperforms the traditional factor retention criteria considered in most cases in terms of bias and accuracy. In addition, we show that factor retention decisions for binary data are preferably made using Pearson, instead of tetrachoric, correlations, which is contradictory to popular belief. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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