6.7.3 Meyer and Bendig (1961) administered the five Thurstone Primary Mental Ability tests, verbal meaning (V), space (S
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6.7.3 Meyer and Bendig (1961) administered the five Thurstone Primary Mental Ability tests, verbal meaning (V), space (S), reasoning (R), nu- merical (N), and word fluency (W), to 49 boys and 61 girls in grade 8 and again three and a half years later in grade 11. The observed correlation matrix is shown below. Fit a single-factor model to the correlations that allows the factor at time one to be correlated with the factor at time two. 7 Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Models V SR NW V SR NW V 1.00 S 0.37 1.00 R 0.42 0.33 1.00 N 0.53 0.14 0.38 1.00 W 0.38 0.10 0.20 0.24 1.00 V 0.81 0.34 0.490.58 0.32 1.00 S 0.35 0.65 0.20 -0.04 0.11 0.34 1.00 R 0.42 0.32 0.75 0.46 0.26 0.46 0.18 1.00 N 0.40 0.14 0.39 0.73 0.19 0.55 0.06 0.54 1.00 W 0.24 0.15 0.17 0.15 0.43 0.24 0.15 0.20 0.16 1.00