Exploratory Hierarchical Factor Analysis with an Application to Psychological Measurement
探索性层级因子分析及其在心理测量中的应用
Hierarchical factor models, which include the bifactor model as a special case, are useful in social and behavioural sciences for measuring hierarchically structured constructs. Specifying a hierarchical factor model involves imposing hierarchically structured zero constraints on a factor loading matrix, which is often challenging. Therefore, an exploratory analysis is needed to learn the hierarchical factor structure from data. Unfortunately, there does not exist an…