CFA lavaan: Bifactor Analysis in R

This tutorial shows you how to test a lavaan bifactor model in R, that is a model with
a general factor and several group factors. With the R package lavaan bifactor cfa can greatly enhance our understanding of construct-relevant multidimensionality.
Companion webpage with the R-code from this tutorial:
www.regorz-statistik.de/en/lav...
How to book a statistics CONSULTATION for LAVAAN (SEM, CFA or path analysis):
www.regorz-statistik.de/en/con...
Two journal articles about bifactor analysis:
Reise, S. P. (2012). The rediscovery of bifactor measurement models. Multivariate behavioral research, 47(5), 667-696.
Bornovalova, M. A., Choate, A. M., Fatimah, H., Petersen, K. J., & Wiernik, B. M. (2020). Appropriate use of bifactor analysis in psychopathology research: Appreciating benefits and limitations. Biological Psychiatry, 88(1), 18-27.
Webpage with strategies how to deal with convergence problems in a bifactor model (the answer there is from one of the authors of the journal article mentioned above, B. M: Wiernik):
stackoverflow.com/questions/6...

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  • @Nihilator
    @Nihilator Жыл бұрын

    I have been looking for an interpretive explanation of bifactor's run in lavann which also assumes the audience has an intermediate understand (thus a focus on application). Not only did you deliver, the explanation is concise & precise, yet thoroughly covers common obsticals in a manner that is easily understood. Thank you for your public service!

  • @lady_pink_kurama
    @lady_pink_kurama10 ай бұрын

    Your video is so well explained and helped me a lot to understand it. Thank you very much! Such a good pace, you show the code and, mostly important, show it with an available dataset. I am trying to do a bifactor analysis with correlated factors and compared it with a 4-factor solution. Didn't work out, it says "covariance matrix of latent variable is not positive definite". Now I try to fix that. Greetings from Switzerland from a German student: Weiter so!

  • @namelessone5022
    @namelessone50223 ай бұрын

    Thanks so much for dealing with identification issues, which are very common in bifactor models. One question. I see you removed the Visual factor, which was causing out-of-bound values. Do you think, instead, correlating the residuals of x1 and x2 and x3 after removing the Visual factor would have been an appropriate solution as well? Typically, residual correlations are not recommended but there is an exception: when you expect them to be correlated (forming a mini factor of some sort). Let's say x1, x2 and x3 are are all correlated moderately, would it be wise to specify the new model with these correlated residuals?

  • @RegorzStatistik

    @RegorzStatistik

    3 ай бұрын

    Interesting idea, one could try that, I guess. Since those items are theoretically connected there would be a possible justification for correlated residuals.

  • @123eorl
    @123eorl8 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much! Would it be possible to use the general factor for further calculations? E.g. to calculate the correlation between the general factor and another variable that was originally not part of the model? thanks again!

  • @RegorzStatistik

    @RegorzStatistik

    8 ай бұрын

    I think it is possible to correlate a general factor with a variable outside of the construct, yes.

  • @123eorl

    @123eorl

    8 ай бұрын

    @@RegorzStatistik cool! vielen Dank!