Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Best CFA book

If you're looking to do confirmatory factor analysis, especially with Mplus, run, do not walk, to Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Applied Research by Timothy A. Brown. Luxuriously lacking matrix algebra and other notation unnecessary to the average social scientist, it takes you through the basics of EFA and CFA, everything you need to check to see if your model is working it, and special topics like fixing your messed up model, multitrait-multimethod, missing data, non-normal or categorical data, etc.

It's the best, basically.

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