Publication: Reconstrucción y consistencia factorial: la regla del codo aplicada al RMSEA, análisis paralelo y otras pruebas confirmatorias
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Rabadán-Pérez, Francisco
Berumen, Sergio A.
Guiance-Lapido, Jaime
Hernández Mora, Cristóbal
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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La comparación de encuestas presenta problemas metodológicos recurrentes, dentro de los que destacan particularmente: i) las dificultades asociadas a la falta de continuidad, bien por el añadido de nuevas preguntas o por la eliminación de otras; ii) las dificultades propias en la selección de las variables a comparar; iii) la necesidad de recodificación entre cuestionarios no coincidentes, y iv) la discrecionalidad en las unidades de medida de las variables. Así, para la investigación en métodos cuantitativos se precisan procedimientos que permitan recuperar la estructura factorial, realizar comparaciones entre variables y recodificar las unidades de medida y en la escala, todo ello en distintos periodos. Para evaluar en qué medida se mantiene la estructura factorial, en el presente artículo se proponen medidas de bondad del ajuste y contrastes propios del análisis factorial confirmatorio, a lo que se añade una aplicación novedosa del principio de parsimonia a los estadísticos RMSEA, FIT y BIC, a través de la conocida regla del codo en el gráfico de sedimentación. La propuesta metodológica se valida a través de dos publicaciones del Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) de distintos años y centradas en el fenómeno del fraude fiscal.
The comparison of surveys presents recurring methodological problems, among which the following stand out particularly: i) the difficulties associated with the change of the questions, either due to the addition of new ones, changing in the mode that are asked, or the elimination of others; ii) the own difficulties selecting the variables to be compared; iii) the need for recoding between mismatched surveys, and iv) the different measurement scales of the variables. Thus, in order to carry on research in quantitative methods, procedures are required to allow for the factorial structure, to compare variables, and to recode the measurement and the scale, all of them in different periods. To evaluate the extent to which the factorial structure is maintained, this work proposes measures of goodness of fit, attached to the confirmatory factorial analysis, where we can find also an original interpretation of the parsimony principle with the RMSEA, FIT and BIC, through the well-known elbow rule in the scree plot. The methodological proposal is validated through two publications, from different years, of the Sociological Research Center (CIS, by its Spanish acronym) and focused on the phenomenon of fiscal fraud.
The comparison of surveys presents recurring methodological problems, among which the following stand out particularly: i) the difficulties associated with the change of the questions, either due to the addition of new ones, changing in the mode that are asked, or the elimination of others; ii) the own difficulties selecting the variables to be compared; iii) the need for recoding between mismatched surveys, and iv) the different measurement scales of the variables. Thus, in order to carry on research in quantitative methods, procedures are required to allow for the factorial structure, to compare variables, and to recode the measurement and the scale, all of them in different periods. To evaluate the extent to which the factorial structure is maintained, this work proposes measures of goodness of fit, attached to the confirmatory factorial analysis, where we can find also an original interpretation of the parsimony principle with the RMSEA, FIT and BIC, through the well-known elbow rule in the scree plot. The methodological proposal is validated through two publications, from different years, of the Sociological Research Center (CIS, by its Spanish acronym) and focused on the phenomenon of fiscal fraud.
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Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y la empresa, ISSN-e 1886-516X, Vol. 33, 2022, págs. 353-385




