Dear Jens, If you're willing to assume multinormality but don't have in mind a specific model to estimate, then why not use factanal? The uniquenesses are estimates of the unreliability of the items.
I hope this helps, John On Thu, 13 May 2004 17:09:14 +0200 (MEST) "Jens Oehlschlägel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear John, > Dear Joseph, > > Thank you for your quick answers and the pointer to semnet. > I try to clarify on my assumptions: > > - yes, I am willing to assume multivariate normality > - no, I don't want to assume a single factor model > - I assume there is an unknown number of factors, and I do not know > which > items belong to which factors > > but I still want to estimate single item reliabilities > > Is this impossible? > How can one specify such unspecified model to sem? > Which (exploratory?) function would me help doing this? > Or just: what should I read? > > Thanks for any help > > > Jens Oehlschlägel > > -- > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html