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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Sep;17(9):2231–2237. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0176

Table 2.

Non-invariant factor loadings, variances, and covariances across groups; PCCaSO, 2005

B SE Beta B SE Beta CMIN df p =
Never Screened
(n = 528)
Prior CRCS
(n = 553)

SE decision 1.56 0.09 0.80 1.31 0.09 0.71 16.10 7 .024

Males
(n = 448)
Females
(n = 633)

SE Embarrass 1.19 0.05 0.90 1.09 0.05 0.82 12.81 5 .025
SE Prep 1.05 0.05 0.82 0.89 0.05 0.70 14.88 4 .005
Pro Early detection 0.74 0.07 0.59 0.94 0.07 0.69 14.74 7 .039

Whites
(n = 388)
African Americans
(n = 497)

Con MD embarrass 0.52 0.09 0.40 0.91 0.09 0.64 28.31 8 .001
Con pain 1.66 0.19 0.66 0.89 0.11 0.45 34.59 8 .001
Variance pro 0.20 0.03 -- 0.15 0.02 --
Variance con 0.17 0.03 -- 0.37 0.06 --
Cons <-> Influence 0.02 0.01 0.11 NS 0.07 0.02 0.38
Pros <-> Cons <−0.01 0.01 −0.01 NS 0.03 0.01 0.13
Pros <->Influence 0.17 0.02 0.96 0.13 0.02 0.90

B = unstandardized estimate; SE = standard error; Beta = standardized estimate

NS

p > .05