Re: [R] Is there a package for EFA with multiple groups?

2014-08-10 Thread William Revelle
Dear Josh and Elizabeth, Josh suggested one way of doing it with the psych package. As of today, the psych package (version psych_1.4.8) , I have included a new function (faBy) that will work with the statsBy function to do EFA for each of multiple groups. Basically, it just calls the statsBy

Re: [R] Is there a package for EFA with multiple groups?

2014-07-28 Thread Joshua Wiley
Hi Elizabeth, In confirmatory factor analysis with multiple groups, the reason one needs to estimate the models simultaneously is that, typically, one is interested in applying constraints (e.g., forcing all or some of the factor loadings to be equal across groups). In exploratory factor

[R] Is there a package for EFA with multiple groups?

2014-07-27 Thread Elizabeth Barrett-Cheetham
Hello R users, I’m hoping to run an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis on a psychology survey instrument. The data has been collected from multiple groups, and it’s likely that the data is hierarchical/has 2nd order factors. It appears that the lavaan package allows me to run a