Factor Retention in Ordinal Data Under Local Item Dependence: A Monte Carlo Comparison of Correlation Estimators and Retention Methods
Educational and Psychological Measurement
Published online on July 18, 2026
Abstract
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Local item dependence (LID) is a persistent threat to dimensionality assessment in ordinal data, yet its effects on factor retention methods remain incompletely understood. Five factor retention methods (minimum average partial [MAP], parallel analysis [...
Local item dependence (LID) is a persistent threat to dimensionality assessment in ordinal data, yet its effects on factor retention methods remain incompletely understood. Five factor retention methods (minimum average partial [MAP], parallel analysis [...