Factor analyzing ordinal items requires substantive knowledge of response marginals.
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DOI: 10.1037/met0000495
Abstract: In the social sciences, measurement scales often consist of ordinal items and are commonly analyzed using factor analysis. Either data are treated as continuous, or a discretization framework is imposed in order to take the… read more here.
Keywords: ordinal items; substantive knowledge; factor; knowledge ... See more keywords
Parceling Ordinal Items in Latent Interaction Modeling
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DOI: 10.1080/00273171.2022.2160951
Abstract: Latent interaction modeling (LIM) explicitly accounts for measurement errors. Two popular LIM methods, the unconstrained product indicator (UPI; Marsh et al., 2004) and the latent moderated structural equation modeling (LMS; Klein & Moosbrugger, 2000), have… read more here.
Keywords: interaction; parceling ordinal; ordinal items; latent interaction ... See more keywords