When fit indices and residuals are incompatible |
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Authors: | Browne Michael W MacCallum Robert C Kim Cheong-Tag Andersen Barbara L Glaser Ronald |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1222, USA. browne.4@osu.edu |
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Abstract: | Standard chi-square-based fit indices for factor analysis and related models have a little known property: They are more sensitive to misfit when unique variances are small than when they are large. Consequently, very small correlation residuals indicating excellent fit can be accompanied by indications of bad fit by the fit indices when unique variances are small. An empirical example of this incompatibility between residuals and fit indices is provided. For illustrative purposes, an artificial example is provided that yields exactly the same correlation residuals as the empirical example but has larger unique variances. For this example, the fit indices indicate excellent fit. A theoretical explanation for this phenomenon is provided using relationships between unique variances and eigenvalues of the fitted correlation matrix. |
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