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Maraun, Michael D.; Halpin, Peter F. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2008
The clue to what latent variable models are, and to a workable account of the basis for the traditional manifest/latent variable distinction, lies in a reconsideration of the indeterminacy property of linear factor structures. In this article, the authors contend that latent variable models are not detectors of unobservable latent structures,…
Descriptors: Measurement, Statistics, Factor Structure, Models