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negative outer loadings

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 2:37 pm
by Ingrid Snijders
Hello, what does an indicator's negative outer loading imply? How to interpret and how to follow rules of thumb such as the threshold value of .60 (exploratory research)

Re: negative outer loadings

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:59 am
by janschreier
Hi Ingrid,

could be that the scale of the indicators is reversed (e. g. all scales from 1 = good to 5= bad, and for those negative ones (5=good, and 1 = bad) or that you are having problems with multicollinarity (use the forum's search for that topic).

hope that helps!
Jan