Appropriate Use of Bifactor Analysis in Psychopathology Research: Appreciating Benefits and Limitations

2020/01/28 by Marina A. Bornovalova, Alexandria M. Choate, Haya Fatimah +2 · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Mental Health Research Topics

paper · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.01.013

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Discussions

• 2/ Bornovalova and colleagues have argued that the selection of bi-factor models needs to also take into account the pattern of estimates (cf. Figure 1): doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]