Thank you so much for this video! I've never conducted a CFA and was feeling really overwhelmed and stressed about it, but your explanations were so helpful and I'm feeling a million times less nervous about running a CFA for my thesis now. Thanks again!
EFA is performed to explore the factors and for data reduction. the pilot study is not for final analysis. in the pilot study, we only check the data consistency and see if the processes are moving in the right direction. therefore if you do it for EFA and CFA, it's not correct. The correct process is to go for EFA for the pilot test then collect complete data and perform EFA and CFA on that complete data. Hope it is clear.
Sir, i saw your video on when to apply EFA and CFA. I am planning to write a paper on the application of a popular model in a local context and also plan to add a few extra latent variables and moderators. I will need to do EFA? And if I do not add the extra latent variables in the model but improvise a few indicators here and there and keep the moderators, can I directly go for CFA? Thanks
Respected Sir, my data is not normally distributed. I want to know how to do factor analysis with non normally distributed data. What tool should I use for factor analysis. Thank you sir
Normality is the first condition for applying factor analysis. if your data is not normal data then you have to find outliers and make your data normal. if you want to proceed with the same data without making it normal then you can use SmartPLS software for this analysis.
I can not share that worksheet as it is the property of my college database. But you can use already uploaded datasheets in the SPSS available as examples.
