Confirmatory Factor Analysis Example: SF-36
Observed Variables
TPF TRP TBP TGH TVT TSF TRE TMH
Latent Variables
PHYS MENT
Sample Size is 437
Correlation Matrix
1
0.50489	1
0.46718	0.77983	1
0.58646	0.58939	0.4213	1
0.38479	0.41775	0.42893	0.54651	1
0.40176	0.62217	0.5164	0.55472	0.53852	1
0.20418	0.29463	0.3488	0.3039	0.49688	0.59459	1
0.28042	0.3485	0.23818	0.41244	0.59777	0.77475	0.49431  1
Standard Deviations
0.95369  0.8373  0.97183  0.99292  0.9926  0.91845  0.82046  0.9919
Relationships
TPF = 1*PHYS
TRP TBP TGH = PHYS
TVT = 1*MENT
TSF TRE TMH = MENT
!Let the errors of TBP and TRP correlate
Path Diagram
End of Problem