Polychoric versus Pearson correlations in exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of ordinal variables

2008/09/06 by Francisco Pablo Holgado–Tello, Francisco Pablo Holgado Tello, Salvador Chacón Moscoso +4 · 1,148 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Mathematics · #Advanced Statistical Methods and Models #Confirmatory factor analysis #Correlation #Econometrics #Exploratory factor analysis #Likert scale #Mathematics #Ordinal Scale #Ordinal data #Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient #Polychoric correlation #Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods #Statistical Methods and Applications #Statistics #Structural equation modeling

paper · doi:10.1007/s11135-008-9190-y

published in Quality & Quantity 44(1), 153-166 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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