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A note on identifiability conditions in confirmatory factor analysis

Statistics Theory 2021-04-08 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

Recently, Chen, Li and Zhang established conditions characterizing asymptotic identifiability of latent factors in confirmatory factor analysis. We give an elementary proof showing that a similar characterization holds non-asymptotically, and prove a related result for identifiability of factor loadings.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.02879,
  title  = {A note on identifiability conditions in confirmatory factor analysis},
  author = {William Leeb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02879},
  year   = {2021}
}
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