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  • Statistics
  • Psychometrics
  • Quantitative Psychology

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  • Factor analysis is a key multivariate statistical technique.
  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) allows flexible exploration of factor loadings.
  • Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling (BSEM) offers new methods for exploring cross-loadings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and evaluate a novel Bayesian approach for identifying factor-loading patterns in CFA.
  • To compare the proposed Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with Spike-and-Slab Prior (BSEM-SSP) against existing methods.
  • To demonstrate the practical application of BSEM-SSP using real-world data.

Main Methods:

  • Formulating factor loading determination as a Bayesian variable selection problem.
  • Introducing BSEM-SSP as a one-stage alternative to the BSEM with Ridge Regression Prior (BSEM-RP).
  • Comparing BSEM-SSP and BSEM-RP with modification indices and exploratory factor analysis.

Main Results:

  • BSEM-SSP offers a theoretically advantageous one-stage approach for factor loading exploration.
  • Empirical comparison demonstrates the performance of BSEM-SSP relative to other methods.
  • The study highlights the utility of Bayesian variable selection in CFA.

Conclusions:

  • BSEM-SSP provides a robust and flexible Bayesian framework for uncovering complex factor structures.
  • The proposed method enhances the capabilities of CFA by integrating Bayesian variable selection.
  • This research contributes to advanced statistical modeling in multivariate data analysis.