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The Manifest Association Structure of the Single-Factor Model: Insights from Partial Correlations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Maria de Fátima Salgueiro ,
Peter W. F. Smith  and
John W. McDonald
Maria de Fátima Salgueiro*
Affiliation:
ISCTE Business School
Peter W. F. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
John W. McDonald
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
*
Requests for reprints should be sent to Maria de Fátima Salgueiro, Departamento Métodos Quantitativos, ISCTE Business School, Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The association structure between manifest variables arising from the single-factor model is investigated using partial correlations. The additional insights to the practitioner provided by partial correlations for detecting a single-factor model are discussed. The parameter space for the partial correlations is presented, as are the patterns of signs in a matrix containing the partial correlations that are not compatible with a single-factor model.

Keywords

anti-image correlation matrixelliptical tetrahedronfactor analysisfactor partial correlationmanifest partial correlation
Type
Theory and Methods
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 73 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 665 - 670
Copyright
Copyright © 2007 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

The research of the first author was supported by the Fundaçāo para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and by the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute.

The authors thank the Editor, the Associate Editor and three Reviewers for their constructive comments which helped to improve the paper.

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