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Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA)

The project

This project contains confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) examples in SmartPLS. These are mostly examples from well-known textbooks on the CFA method and structural equation modeling (SEM). In these textbooks, the models are calculated with different CB-SEM software applications like IBM SPSS Amos, LISREL, MPlus, EQS, but also R packages like lavaan. The CFA examples use the textbook data that can be read into CB-SEM projects in SmartPLS, which also support conducting a CFA, as raw data, but also as covariance or correlation matrices. These examples demonstrate that the CB-SEM implementation in SmartPLS provides the same results as presented in these textbooks for a CFA.

IBM SPSS Amos Example 8

IBM SPSS Amos Example 7
Arbuckle, J. L. (2021). IBM® SPSS® Amos™ 28 User’s Guide. IBM SPSS.

Byrne's SEM textbook

Confirmatory factor analysis example

Byrne's Amos Textbook CFA Example using SmartPLS

Second-order factor model

Second-order factor model in Byrne's Amos Textbook CFA Example using SmartPLS

Hair and co-author's multivariate data analysis textbook example for the CFA

Multivariate Data Analysis Textbook Example for CFA using SmartPLS
Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J., & Anderson, R. E. (2018). Multivariate Data Analysis (8 ed.). Cengage Learning.

Kline's CFA textbook example

Kline's CFA Textbook Example

Schumacker & Lomax's CB-SEM guide for beginners

Second-order factor model

Second-order factor model in: A Beginner's Guide to SEM Example using SmartPLS

Growth model

Dynamic model in: A Beginner's Guide to SEM Example unsing SmartPLS
Schumacker, R. E., & Lomax, R. G. (2010). A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling (3 ed.). Routledge.

Download and import

Simply download the project and import it in SmartPLS 4.