confirmatory factor analysis

[#1]

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

[#2]

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.

[#3]

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. 

[#4]

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.