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

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

Byrne's SEM textbook

Confirmatory factor analysis example

Second-order factor model

Byrne, B. M. (2016). Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS: Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming (Multivariate Applications) (3 ed.). Routledge.

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

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, R. B. (2023). Principles and Practice of Structural Equation Modeling (5 ed.). Guilford Press.

Schumacker & Lomax's CB-SEM guide for beginners

Second-order factor model

Growth model

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 ito SmartPLS 4.