All: I do not see any attachment when I click on this link
I am not exactly sure what nabble is, however the attachments can be found on the website thread:
http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/SPSS-factor-scores-td5723392.html.
Where are attachments shown?
David Disabato:
Please email the attachment directly to me. I’d like to see it.
I did a little search at GMU and see that you are in Psych. I’d guess that in the psych program, there is one or more somebodys that teach quantitative methods, specifically SEM. Forget the statistics department; go see them specifically.
This started out with questions about factor scores. But it seems to me that the real problem, the problem that drove you to post here is that your SE model is not working and you need help debugging that. It might be that you’d get better help if you presented that problem AND posted to semnet rather than the spss list, even though amos is an spss product.
Regarding the factor correlations. Yes, they make sense. The factor correlations out of amos have been corrected for item reliability and so the correlations are higher but with wider SEs. That said, there’s not much difference between the spss corrs and the amos corrs, which means, I think, that the factor loadings must be very high, probably in the 90s. The other point about the factor correlations is that a pure lag 1 autoregressive model probably isn’t going to fit because such a model asserts that the (WB1,WB3) correlation is accounted for by the product of the (WB1,WB2) and (WB2,WB3) correlations (and so on). So: .86*.87 <> .82. The situation is even worse when you get to the (WB1,WB5) correlation
Gene Maguin