Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a frequently used multivariate analysis technique in statistics. Jennrich and Sampson (1966) Jennrich, R. I. and Sampson, P. F. 1966. Rotation to simple loadings.. Psychometrika, 31: 313–323. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] solved a significant EFA factor loading matrix rotation problem by deriving the direct Quartimin rotation. Jennrich was also the first to develop standard errors for rotated solutions, although these have still not made their way into most statistical software programs. This is perhaps because Jennrich's achievements were partly overshadowed by the subsequent development of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) by Jöreskog (1969)…