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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 11.
Published in final edited form as: Multivariate Behav Res. 2016 Nov 11;51(6):818–838. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2016.1243461

Table 3.

Model Fit Statistics Under Four Estimators: Maximum Likelihood (ML), Asymptotic Distribution Free (ADF), Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares (IRLS) ds, and IRLS dr

Model χ2 df
χbaseline2
dfbaseline TLI RMSEA SRMR BIC W-BIC
ML
1-Factor 9041 32 265659 45 .952 .078 .038 989686
2-Factors 5330 31 265659 45 .971 .061 .028 985986
Bifactor 3273 26 265659 45 .979 .052 .021 983981
ADF
1-Factor 5591 32 46850 45 .833 .061 .072 999890
2-Factors 4385 31 46850 45 .865 .055 .050 990522
Bifactor 2272 26 46850 45 .917 .043 .021 984677
IRLS ds
1-Factor 7120 32 49599 45 .799 .070 .039 1010039 849889
2-Factors 5352 31 50145 45 .846 .062 .035 999038 844502
Bifactor 3175 26 50529 45 .892 .052 .027 992076 839870

Note. W-LogL is the weighted log-likelihood, W-BIC is the weighted Bayesian information criterion, ds is “implausibility” distance.

*

Indicates lowest value of BIC or W-BIC.