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Factor Analysis with Structured Means
the difference between the boys’ mean and the girls’ mean will be the same, no matter
which mean you fix and no matter what value you fix for it.
Results for Model A
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There is no reason to reject Model A at any conventional significance level.
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We are primarily interested in estimates of mean verbal ability and mean spatial ability,
and not so much in estimates of the other parameters. However, as always, all the
estimates should be inspected to make sure that they are reasonable. Here are the
unstandardized parameter estimates for the 73 girls:
Chi-square = 22.593
Degrees of freedom = 24
Probability level = 0.544
-1.07, 21.19
spatial
30.14
visperc
25.12
cubes
16.60
lozenges
16.22
wordmean
9.45
paragrap
18.26
sentence
0, 25.62
err_v
0, 12.55
err_c
0, 24.65
err_l
0, 2.84
err_p
0, 8.21
err_s
0, 19.88
err_w
.96, 9.95
verbal
1.00
.56
1.37
1.00
1.28
2.21
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1
1
1
1
1
7.19