. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 17.

Published in final edited form as: Multivariate Behav Res. 2015 Nov 17;50(6):569–583. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2015.1032398

Table 2.

Simulation Study: True Generating Parameters

Variable (j)	τ_j_,1	τ_j_,2	τ_j_,3	τ_j_,4	τ_j_,5	λ_j_,1	λ_j_,2	λ_j_,3	ψ_j_,_j
1	−*1.27*	−0.69	−0.28	0.28	1.19	0.70	0	0	0.51
2	−1.11	−0.71	−0.07	0.36	*0.73*	0.73	0	0	0.47
3	−0.74	−0.39	−0.03	*0.24*	1.15	0.73	0	0	0.47
4	−1.15	−0.26	0.06	*0.66*	1.20	0.69	0	0	0.52
5	−0.64	−*0.18*	0.21	0.57	0.94	0	0.65	0	0.54
6	−1.17	−0.54	−*0.23*	0.47	1.15	0	0.73	0	0.42
7	−*1.15*	−0.45	−0.17	0.18	0.74	0	0.73	0	0.42
8	−1.07	−0.38	*0.07*	0.55	1.09	0	0.67	0	0.51
9	−*0.80*	−0.45	−0.07	0.22	0.52	0	0	0.62	0.47
10	−1.02	−0.26	0.12	0.46	*1.06*	0	0	0.68	0.36
11	−1.11	−0.47	0.40	*0.76*	1.19	0	0	0.76	0.20
12	−1.07	−0.18	0.10	0.37	*1.10*	0	0	0.61	0.48

Note. For K = 6 categories, τ_j_,_m is the mth ordered threshold for variable j. For K = 4, the subset of thresholds is in boldface. For K = 2, the further subset of thresholds is also italicized. λ_j,p is the loading of the jth variable on the pth factor. ψ_j,j is unique variance j.