Our next virtual meeting will be at 12pm (EST) Wednesday, November 18, where we will hear Tyler VanderWeele (Harvard University) presents research on "Revisiting Psychometric Theory and Factor Analysis."
Abstract:
The presentation will revisit some of the conceptual and statistical foundations of psychometric measurement theory and factor analysis, specifically addressing the questions: (i) What happens to “factors” when they causally affect one another?, (ii) Is an underlying univariate latent variable a reasonable model for psycho-social constructs?, (iii) What are the testable empirical implications of such a model? and (iv) What alternative interpretations of analyses with constructed measures might be possible?