Confirmatory Factor-Analytic Structures and the Theory Construction Process

Ronald S. Burt
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Ronald S. Burt: Department of Sociology University of Chicago

Sociological Methods & Research, 1973, vol. 2, issue 2, 131-190

Abstract: The confirmatory factor-analytic model of analysis is discussed in terms of the general process of constructing social theory-the generation of parameter estimates for a proposed structure, the assessment of a proposed structure, the interpretation of a proposed structure, and example applications. First-order, second-order, and structural equation confirmatory factor models are discussed in relation to Joreskog's model for the estimation of parameters in general theoretical structures, LISREL.

Date: 1973
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