[EMAIL PROTECTED] (gillian) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi, > > I am using AMOS Basic to fit a One-facor and Two-factor exploratory > factor analysis model to some data. I got the result below: > > 1-facotr analysis - Chi-square: 89.286, degree-of-freedom: 35 with P > value nearly 0. > 2-factor analysis - Chi-square: 30.177, degree-of-freedom: 26 with P > value 0.260. > > Would someone lighten me on the question below please: > > "Use appriopriate significance test to assess whether fitted models > provide a good fit for the data." > > How to do significance test for this case. Could I just mention that > based on the result obtained, two-factor model fits better without > doing further significance test? > > You help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks
You'll probably want to ask this in the SEMnet e-mail group: HTTP://bama.ua.edu/archives/semnet.html I'm used to using an old version of AMOS and even then there are many tests you can run, I'm sure there are more in the newest version.. Maybe someone will point to a good source on the various texts, my AMOS textbook and a couple others I've seen were not very detailed on the testing. You could always also look up the published literature in your field to see what tests they published. Off topic, anyone know how to get the diagram to draw the *significance* (or **) beside each parameter estimate, except the error, obviously? I've never seen this done except in LISREL so I assume not possible. You are correct that you should reject the first model since its p value is <0.05.. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
