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Some Comments on Analytic Traditions in EFA As against CFA: An Analysis of Selected Research Reports.
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Kieffer, Kevin M. – 1998
Factor analysis has historically been used for myriad purposes in the social and behavioral sciences, but an especially important application of this technique has been to evaluate construct validity. Since in the present milieu both exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) are readily available to the researcher,…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Heuristics