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hello, I want to run a MIMIC model in AMOS, is there a ideal number of cause indicators? Thanks on advance,
09 September 2019 8,813 10 View
Hello, My friend created a hypothesis "Is x (variable) is significant?". I found this hypothesis weird:) Anyway, he insists on testing this. I calculated the mean of the scale (x) on SPSS. Is...
08 August 2019 6,989 6 View
Hello, I am trying to run CFA for likert construct? But linearity assumpition is violated. I do not have the oppurtunity to lessen the number of items but there are a lot of items which do not...
01 January 2019 1,013 0 View
How can we interpret negative factor loading? In explanatory factor analysis, how should us interpret negative factor loading? Should we consider absolute value?
01 January 2019 6,779 1 View
In structural equation modeling, ECVI is an index that can be achieved in an other sample. But formulation of ECVI does not explain how this works?
12 December 2018 7,202 3 View
In explanatory factor analysis, I have an item loaded positive in one factor and loaded negative in an other factor, there is a difference less than 0,1 between the two in absoulte terms? Should I...
12 December 2018 6,888 1 View
In my structural equation model, I have a an observed egzogenous variable, according to modification indices, can i link it to an indicator of endogenous latent? Thanks in advance
11 November 2018 6,852 7 View
In reflective models, should regression coefficients between latent and two indicators have same sign?
11 November 2018 3,111 4 View
Is it necessary to test the significance of marker indicator in SEM? I have a SEM model in which latents have two indicators. I estimated hybrid model using one step approach. When I release...
11 November 2018 1,178 3 View
11 November 2018 4,860 0 View
"No bootstrap sample had a positive definite sample covariance matrix. No bootstrap results are reported." In output there is this message are my results invalid? Bollen s.P>0,05 and fit...
10 October 2018 3,135 2 View
In CFA, if sign of factor loading is contradictory with theoretical expectations, what can we do? Can we accept the model and interpret the rational loadings or reject the model?
10 October 2018 2,020 0 View
I applied SEM and according to modification indices I fixed an error variance of an indicator to 0. But it is not the reference indicator. Then I got standardized direct effect and squared...
08 August 2018 3,182 0 View
I am trying to run Second degree cfa in AMOS. As far as I know I must fix second degree factor's variance to 1. But when I right click to I can not see fixing option.I mean there is no box to fix 1.
07 July 2018 3,467 2 View
I am trying to run CFA in R but there is not any output. Here is my commands.Is there any mistake? ' yapi =~ end + kentsel kal =~ NO PC + karbon pc + ormanlk alan(%) ’ fit
07 July 2018 760 0 View
I have two subscale but one subscale will be handled as a whole we are not going to extract factor from it. The other subscale has three factors. Both are likert.I want to run ANOVA. For the first...
07 July 2018 9,709 2 View
I am trying to run structural equation model in AMOS. I use ML.For missing values I used mean substitution in SPSS before analysis.But when I try to run my model I got a warning message "the...
07 July 2018 7,801 3 View
I am trying to run SEM in AMOS.I got 130 cases and had no chance to increase sample size. I made mean substitution before running the analysis in SPSS. There is no multicollinearity among...
07 July 2018 6,064 10 View
Do you use imputation methods for missing data in SEM. Pairwise deletion causes non positive definite warning.Listwise deletion cause sample size decrease. AMOS does not accept missing data. Can I...
07 July 2018 7,719 8 View
I applied factor analysis and found 4 factors but in the previous studies researchers extraxcted 3 factors from same scale. What if I limit the number of factors to 3 in SPSS, is it ethical?
07 July 2018 1,127 6 View
One of my variables is ordinal so I think I'd better to calculate poliserial correlation matrix. But I don't know how to calculate poliserial correlation matrix on SPSS.I need to know poliserial...
07 July 2018 1,871 3 View
I want to input correlation matrix into AMOS. In SPSS I calculated correlations but the values are in output file. I want to create sav extension correlation matrix to input it into AMOS. How can...
07 July 2018 1,637 7 View
I am trying to conduct factor analysis.Some items are loaded on some factors without no theoretical reason.Can we exclude these items?
07 July 2018 9,474 1 View
I calculated covariance matrix using pairwise deletion and input it into AMOS. I got one qualitative variable and missing values in the data set. I got a warning "sample moment matrix is not...
07 July 2018 1,557 2 View
When I run my confirmatory factor analysis model in amos one of the error term has a negative variance.Is this a heywood case?
07 July 2018 3,733 1 View
I have 40 observations and 32 items and I got non positive definite warning message on SPSS when I try to run factor analysis. Should I increase sample size or decrease items? Or both of them?Thanks
06 June 2018 775 3 View
I have 40 observations and 9 items. When I try to run factor analysis on SPSS I get an error message. "There are fewer than two cases, at least one of the variables has zero variance, there is...
06 June 2018 7,963 6 View
Must we chose ordinal or scale option for likert in SPSS? I think there is a disagreement about it
06 June 2018 6,709 0 View
Hello, I created correlation matrix in SPSS and want to input it into AMOS. Does anyone have idea about this problem? Thanks
06 June 2018 9,625 4 View
When chi square cross table assumptions are not met,and if category combining is inappropriate, can we use Fisher exact test in SPSS for tables bigger than 2x2? I clicked exact and than exact...
06 June 2018 1,930 3 View
When I try to run AMOS I see a warning "the variable bla bla is represented by a rectangle in the path diagram but it is not an observed variable" In fact it is an observed variable
06 June 2018 316 7 View
