Dear Liu, I'm not aware of any way of doing what you want in R at present. You can base the analysis on polychoric correlations, which can be computed using the polycor package, and you can get consistent estimates of the factor loadings and factor correlations from the sem packages, but the likelihood won't be right.
I hope that this is of some help, John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of yyan liu > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [R] Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Non-Normal case > > Hi: > I am doing a confirmatory factor analysis now. In the > analysis, I have null hypothesis test which specify some > special structure for the loading matrix. > And the alternative is there is no such special structure. > Then the log likelihood ratio test can be used. The problem I > have is my data comes from a questionnaire and all the > variables are discrete from > 1 to 7, which makes the normality assumption a problem. I > wonder if there is any other test can do this job or at least > I can make some sensible transformation to make the variables > "normal"? > Thank you very much! > > liu > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
