Confirmatory Factor Analysis: A Preface to LISREL (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

Long, John Scott

ISBN 10: 080392044X / ISBN 13: 9780803920446

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1983

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Confirmatory Factor Analysis: A Preface to LISREL (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080392044X
• ISBN 13: 9780803920446
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Demonstrates how to use confirmatory factor analysis--a model that allows researchers to specify the relationships among observed and latent variables on the basis of substantive considerations rather than mathematical convenience.

About the Author

Scott Long is Distinguished Professor and Chancellor′s Professor of Sociology and Statistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He teaches quantitative methods both at Indiana University and at the ICSPR Summer Program. His earlier research examined gender differences in the scientific career. In recent years, he has collaborated with Eliza Pavalko, Bernice Pescsolido, John Bancroft, Julia Heiman and others in studies of health and aging, stigma and mental health, and human sexuality.