ABSTRACT
Confirmatory factor analysis tests hypotheses that a specified subset of variables legitimately define a prespecified factor. Confirmatory multiple-group factor analysis was presented in Chapter 5. The concept underlying maximum likelihood factoring and the procedure itself are described in Sections 7.1 and 7.2. This procedure differs from exploratory factor analysis because explicit hypotheses are tested. Rotation is not used and the confirmatory factor analysis gives a solution directly. An introduction to several of the applications for confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis is in Section 7.3.
