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EFA or CFA

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:42 am
by cqubala
Hi All, could you kindly let me know why SmartPls is not suitable for CFA (Confirmatory Factor Analysis)? I heard that SmartPls is most suitable for EFA rather CFA. Also, most of the people say that if I want to use CFA then to use covariance-based SEM. Is that correct?

Thanks
Bala