Exercise

Factor loadings in EFA & CFA

Manifest item loadings on latent factors play a prominent role in both EFA and CFA, but as mentioned previously, those of CFA are more definitive than EFA. Taking our three-factor model from brand_rep_8, let's compare the factor scores and path diagrams. The EFA model is stored as brand_rep_EFA and the CFA as brand_rep_CFA.

psych, lavaan and semPlot have been loaded into your environment.

Instructions

100 XP

Print the factor loadings for the EFA.
Print the standardized loadings for the CFA.
Produce a model diagram for the EFA. You can do this with the fa.diagram() function from psych.
Produce a model diagram of the CFA.

Take Hint (-30 XP)