Introduction to Factor Analysis – Course Page

Author

Markus Steiner

Welcome to the course page of the workshop Introduction to Factor Analysis for the Graduate School of Psychology. Here you find links to all necessary course materials.

Participants should have some familiarity with R. While the necessary R-code is simple, you’ll be able to better focus on the contents if you don’t struggle with the R syntax itself.

Before the Workshop

Please install the following software before the workshop on your laptop:

Install R: Follow the instruction on cran for your OS
Install RStudio: Follow the instructions on posit.co
Install relevant packages, by running the following code in your R console:

install.packages(c("lavaan", "semTools", "lavaan.mi", "mice", "semPlot",
                   "lavaanPlot", "psych", "EFAtools", "tidyverse"),
                 dependencies = TRUE)

Download and unzip the project folder containing an RStudio project and a data set: click here to start the download

Time and Place

The workshop takes place on June 5, from 14:00 to 18:00 and June 6, from 09:00 to 13:00 at Missionsstrasse 64, Room 00.011.

Schedule

Session	Materials
Introduction	Slides
EFA	Slides Exercises
CFA	Slides Exercises
Wrapup	Slides