探索性分析和验证性分析（Exploratory analysis and confirmatory analysis）.docVIP

探索性分析和验证性分析（Exploratory analysis and confirmatory analysis） Comparative study of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis Hubei, Wuhan, Yang Dan Abstract: exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis are two different forms of factor analysis. They are based on the common factor model, but there is also a big difference between them. By comparing and analyzing them, we can find out their similarities and differences, and provide some guidance for the empirical analysis. Keywords: exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling Things in real life are complicated. In real data, we often encounter multiple situations, not just single independent variables and single dependent variables. Therefore, multivariate analysis is needed, and factor analysis is one of the most important methods for reducing dimension. It integrates variables (or samples) with complex relations into a few factors to reproduce the relationship between the original variables and the factors, and classifies the variables according to different factors. It is actually a way to test how potential structures affect observational variables. There are two basic forms of factor analysis: exploratory factor analysis (Exploratory, Factor, Analysis) and confirmatory factor analysis (Confirmatory, Factor, Analysis). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) aims at finding the intrinsic structure of things, while confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is used to test whether a given structure is functioning in a desired manner. There are both connections and differences between the two, Now lets compare and analyze in different ways. The similarities between the one or two factor analyses The two factor analysis is based on the common factor model. The basic idea of factor analysis is based on the internal structure variable correlation coefficient matrix, find the control variables a few random variables to describe the relationship between se