A Review of CEFA Software: Comprehensive Exploratory Factor Analysis Program

Autor/in	Lee, Soon-Mook
Titel	A Review of CEFA Software: Comprehensive Exploratory Factor Analysis Program
Quelle	In: International Journal of Testing, 10 (2010) 1, S.95-103 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1530-5058
Schlagwörter	Factor Structure; Computer Software; Factor Analysis; Research Methodology; Goodness of Fit; Comparative Analysis; Data Analysis; Matrices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Faktorenstruktur; Faktorenanalyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Auswertung; Matrizenrechnung
Abstract	CEFA 3.02(Browne, Cudeck, Tateneni, & Mels, 2008) is a factor analysis computer program designed to perform exploratory factor analysis. It provides the main properties that are needed for exploratory factor analysis, namely a variety of factoring methods employing eight different discrepancy functions to be minimized to yield initial solutions, a variety of tests or fit indices for the factor solutions, a reasonable choice of rotation methods to yield derived solutions, and asymptotic standard errors for the loadings of rotated factor pattern matrices. It is distributed free in an English version. The functionality of CEFA was reviewed and compared with the factor analysis procedures provided in widely used statistical packages, SAS (SAS Institute Inc., 1999) and SPSS (SPSS Inc., 2006). (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10