Hi,

I'm performing an EFA and after that a CFA to validate a questionnaire. For the EFA, I have 298 cases and I did a Principal axis factoring analysis and a max likelihood analysis but I'm not sure which one would be best. In the beginning I also did some normality tests and it seemed that the PAF would fit better because the normality tests didn't indicate a significant normality.

How can you be sure that you choose the best option?

Thanks!

Kind regards - Manou