Main description:

1. This book is applicable to courses across the social and behavioral science on a wide range of quantitative methods courses. 2. The book is based solely on Stata for EFA - one of the top statistics software packages used in behavioral and social sciences. 3. Clear step-by-step guidance combined with screen shots to show how to apply EFA to real data.

Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Data

3. Stata Software

4. Importing and Saving Data

5. Decision Steps in Exploratory Factor Analysis

6. Step 1: Variables to Include

7. Step 2: Participants

8. Step 3: Data Screening

9. Step 4: Is Exploratory Factor Analysis Appropriate?

10. Step 5: Factor Analysis Model

11. Step 6: Factor Extraction Method

12. Step 7: How many Factors to Retain

13. Step 8: Rotate Factors

14. Step 9: Interpret Exploratory Factor Analysis Results

15. Step 10: Report Exploratory Factor Analysis Results

16. Exploratory Factor Analysis with Categorical Variables

17. Higher-Order and Bifactor Models

18. Exploratory versus Confirmatory Factor Analysis

19. Practice Exercises

References and Resources