Abstract
Abstract Confirmatory second‐order factor analysis may be conceptualized as a further factor analyzing of the results of an initial factor analysis of some observed variables. Specifically, the initial or first‐order factor means, variances, and covariances are re‐analyzed into more general or abstracted variables. For pedagogical reasons, this approached is initially developed via a first and second‐order multivariate multiple regression analysis using measured or observed variables. Next by analogy, the approach is extended to latent variates or unobserved factors. Throughout an illustration is presented using Thurstone's Primary Mental Abilities, Horn and Cattell's Fluid and Crystallized Intelligences, and Spearmen's General Intelligence.
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