Myths and Confusions

Part 1: The Central Account

II Latent variable models

III The central account

IV The indeterminacy property of linear factor representations

V The indeterminacy debate

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Statistical symbols and convention

Part 2: The Central Account is Mythology

VI Introduction

VII The myth of the latent variable model as detector

VIII The myth of unobservability 211

IX Latent variable interpretation and the deeper problem

X The myth that latent variable models are models

XI Rebuttals and comments

XII The roots of the central account

XIII Three case studies

Part 3: Replacement Variate Generators

XIV Introduction

XV Logic of replacement variate generators

XVI A survey of replacement variate generators

The following are the chapters of the unpublished manuscript: Maraun, M. D. (2003) Myths and confusions: Psychometrics and the latent variable model They are the intellectual property of the author, M.D. Maraun.