ackwards

MaRDI QIDQ7374191CRANFDO

Authors Jeffrey M Girard

Last update 27 July 2026

Copyright license MIT license, File License

Software version identifier PACKAGES.rds, 0.1.1, 0.2.0

Description

Implements Goldberg's (2006) <doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.01.001> bass-ackwards method and modern descendants for hierarchical structural analysis. Extracts solutions from 1 to k factors using principal component analysis (PCA), exploratory factor analysis (EFA), or exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) engines, then characterizes the hierarchy via between-level factor-score correlations computed via exact linear algebra (Waller, 2007, <doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.08.005>) or materialized scores. Includes the Forbes (2023) <doi:10.1037/met0000546> extension for redundancy pruning and all-levels cross-correlations.

Cites work

• A general method for computing hierarchical component structures by Goldberg’s Bass-Ackwards method
• Doing it all Bass-Ackwards: The development of hierarchical factor structures from the top down
• Improving hierarchical models of individual differences: An extension of Goldberg’s bass-ackward method.

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