2 papers
stat.ME2025
Exploratory Hierarchical Factor Analysis with an Application to Psychological Measurement
Jiawei Qiao, Yunxiao Chen, Zhiliang Ying
Hierarchical factor models, which include the bifactor model as a special case, are useful in social and behavioural sciences for measuring hierarchically structured constructs. Sp…
stat.ME2024
Exact Exploratory Bi-factor Analysis: A Constraint-based Optimisation Approach
Jiawei Qiao, Yunxiao Chen, Zhiliang Ying
Bi-factor analysis is a form of confirmatory factor analysis widely used in psychological and educational measurement. The use of a bi-factor model requires the specification of an…