Mixture multigroup factor analysis for unraveling factor loading noninvariance across many groups.

K De Roover, JK Vermunt, E Ceulemans - Psychological Methods, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Psychological research often builds on between-group comparisons of (measurements of)
latent variables; for instance, to evaluate cross-cultural differences in neuroticism or …

Mixture simultaneous factor analysis for capturing differences in latent variables between higher level units of multilevel data

K De Roover, JK Vermunt, ME Timmerman… - … Equation Modeling: A …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Given multivariate data, many research questions pertain to the covariance structure:
whether and how the variables (eg, personality measures) covary. Exploratory factor …

Mixture model selection via hierarchical BIC

J Zhao, L Jin, L Shi - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2015 - Elsevier
The Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is one of the most popular criteria for model
selection in finite mixture models. However, it implausibly penalizes the complexity of each …

Class enumeration and parameter recovery of growth mixture modeling and second-order growth mixture modeling in the presence of measurement noninvariance …

ES Kim, Y Wang - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Population heterogeneity in growth trajectories can be detected with growth mixture
modeling (GMM). It is common that researchers compute composite scores of repeated …

Testing for factor loading differences in mixture simultaneous factor analysis: a Monte Carlo simulation-based perspective

E Geminiani, E Ceulemans… - … Equation Modeling: A …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Factor analysis is ubiquitously applied in behavioral sciences for capturing covariances of
observed variables by latent variables (factors). When factor-analyzing data from many …