Poster #8 - Performance of Robust Estimators for Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Ordinal Variables With Missing Data

• In Event: 47.099 - MTCC Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: 47.099-1 - Division D Section 2 Statistical Theory and Quantitative Methodologies

Abstract

Categorical indicators and missing data are common issues in the measurement of educational and psychological constructs. Categorical indicators violate the linearity assumption between latent constructs and the manifest variables in conventional confirmatory factor analysis that is routinely used to provide structural evidence of validity.

Authors

• Levi Shiverdecker, The Pennsylvania State University

• Pui-Wa Lei, The Pennsylvania State University