Because the assumption of normality is common in statistics, the robustness of statistical procedures to the violation of the normality assumption is often of interest. When one examines the impact of the violation of the normality assumption, it is important to simulate data from a nonnormal...

The infinitesimal jackknife, a nonparametric method for estimating standard errors, has been used to obtain standard error estimates in covariance structure analysis. In this article, we adapt it for obtaining standard errors for rotated factor loadings and factor correlations in exploratory...

Four estimators of the reliability for a composite score based on the factor analysis model and five estimators of the maximal reliability for the composite are presented. When the Wishart maximum likelihood is used for the estimation of the model parameters, it is shown that the five estimators...