Table 2.

Mean (and Standard Deviation) of Correlations Between Score Estimates and True Factor Scores in Orthogonal Factor Models: Main Simulation Study.

	Unit-loading		DIANA
	O-COF	Correlation ratio	O-COF	Correlation ratio
Overall	.768 (.060)	.798 (.052)	.821 (.074)	.851 (.072)
Communality level
Low	.715 (.039)	.731 (.027)	.752 (.044)	.762 (.031)
Wide	.811 (.044)	.840 (.019)	.831 (.055)	.864 (.031)
High	.778 (.050)	.823 (.012)	.880 (.056)	.926 (.013)
Response extremity
None	.810 (.044)	.808 (.045)	.867 (.064)	.861 (.067)
Low	.795 (.042)	.810 (.045)	.851 (.056)	.864 (.063)
Important	.772 (.040)	.805 (.047)	.826 (.053)	.859 (.066)
Severe	.695 (.036)	.770 (.058)	.739 (.046)	.819 (.083)

Note. DIANA = Direct Item Addition of Non-Ahead proposed sets; O-COF = ordinal coefficient of fidelity.