Confirmatory Factor Analysis- Huge correlation between factors

[jing jiang]

Hi, I'm trying to use confa command to do confirmatory factor analysis.

My code was:

confa (UF: scoep_010 scoep_002-scoep_009) (SF: scoep_022 scoep_017-scoep_021),from(ones)corr(scoep_003:scoep_006)

where all the variables are numbers in the range [0, 100].

It turned out in the result table that the correlations between factors are 350, 241 and 133, while I cannot think of any interpretation of factor correlation outside the range of [-1,1].

Can someone tell me what's wrong and suggest some method to solve this problem?

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist.

One simple possibility: when I ran one of the CFA examples in the documentation, the results table included a section headed "Factor cov." which I understand to mean "factor covariances" rather than "factor correlations".

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