On 12 Nov 2003 at 17:18, Andrew Walsh wrote: You should look inti the literature of Rasch models, for instance, Gerhard Fischer, Ivo W Molenaar "Rasch Models, Foundations, Recent developments, and Applications". Factro analysys is not in its index, but it has models which can be interpreted as factor analysis for binary variables.
Kjetil Halvorsen > hi all, > > i would like to examine the factor structure of a 20 item 'true/false' > scale i'm currently using. the authors have indicated that this measure > has a single factor solution, however my intuition says otherwise. > could you direct me to a few literary sources that specifically > addresses factor analysis with a dichotomous variable? > > thanks in advance, > ~aw > > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: > . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
