[R] please help with estimation of true correlations and reliabilities

["Jens Oehlschlägel"]

Dear John,

I checked for the uniquenesses from factanal() and found out that these
estimates need an a priori assumption about the number of latent factors
(and they depend strongly on that assumption). What I want is an estimate of
reliablity independent of such an assumption.  Is it possible to specify
such "structure" to sem or another SEM software? (no assumption about number
of factors, no assumptions about which variables group together).

Best regards


Jens Oehlschlägel

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