HolzingerSwineford1939:

Description

The classic Holzinger and Swineford (1939) dataset consists of mental ability test scores of seventh- and eighth-grade children from two different schools (Pasteur and Grant-White). In the original dataset (available in the MBESS package), there are scores for 26 tests. However, a smaller subset with 9 variables is more widely used in the literature (for example in Joreskog's 1969 paper, which also uses the 145 subjects from the Grant-White school only).

Usage

data(HolzingerSwineford1939)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 301 observations of 15 variables.

id: Identifier
sex: Gender
ageyr: Age, year part
agemo: Age, month part
school: School (Pasteur or Grant-White)
grade: Grade
x1: Visual perception
x2: Cubes
x3: Lozenges
x4: Paragraph comprehension
x5: Sentence completion
x6: Word meaning
x7: Speeded addition
x8: Speeded counting of dots
x9: Speeded discrimination straight and curved capitals

References

Holzinger, K., and Swineford, F. (1939). A study in factor analysis: The stability of a bifactor solution. Supplementary Educational Monograph, no. 48. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Joreskog, K. G. (1969). A general approach to confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analysis. Psychometrika, 34, 183-202.

Examples

Run this code

head(HolzingerSwineford1939)