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9 Variables from the Holzinger and Swineford (1939) Dataset
Description
Mental abilities data on seventh- and eighth-grade children from the classic Holzinger and Swineford (1939) dataset.
Format
A data frame with 301 observations on the following 15 variables.
- id
subject identifier
- sex
gender
- ageyr
age, year part
- agemo
age, month part
- school
school name (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
Source
These data were retrieved from the lavaan package. The complete data for all 26 tests are available in the MBESS package.
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
data(HS9Var)
head(HS9Var)