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confirmatory factor analysis

xiaoyaj0 — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:04:36 GMT

Could JMP perform CFA? I know it does EFA (multivariate--principal component). But does it have the capacity for CFA? Thank you!

Re: confirmatory factor analysis

cwillden — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:50:53 GMT

I don't think CFA is implemented anywhere in JMP currently. I found this old blog that describes doing SEM (CFA is a special case of SEM) in combination with SAS and JMP, but obviously you would need SAS as well.

Re: confirmatory factor analysis

xiaoyaj0 — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:48:38 GMT

Okay. What software do you use when you do CFA? My professor uses Amos, but I would have to pay for it because my university does not subscribe to it.

Re: confirmatory factor analysis

cwillden — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:31:22 GMT

I don’t do CFA in my work, but you probably would need to go with R if you don't want to pay for software, and download a factor analysis package.