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. 2015 Jun 20;25(3):205–219. doi: 10.1002/mpr.1474

Table 1.

Coverage rates (in %) for 95% confidence/credibility interval (CI)

Clustering Estimator Intra‐class correlation coefficient
0.00 0.06 0.11 0.16 0.21 0.24 0.28 0.31 0.34 0.37 0.39
Loadings
Acknowledged WLSMV 93.21 90.3 90.5 90.2 91.3 91.3 91.5 91.9 91.9 92.6 92.2
Ignored WLSMV 4.7 2.2 1.3 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5
Ignored FIML 0.8 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3
Ignored MCMC2 94.9 92.0 83.2 71.9 60.6 51.2 43.4 37.3 33.0 29.0 26.8
Correlations
Acknowledged WLSMV 87.21 88.4 88.2 88.6 88.9 89.3 89.5 89.5 90.5 91.3 91.4
Ignored WLSMV 94.4 95.5 94.5 93.8 92.3 90.9 89.0 87.9 85.9 84.1 83.4
Ignored FIML 94.7 95.0 94.5 93.2 92.0 89.7 88.3 87.2 85.6 84.9 82.6
Ignored MCMC2 95.7 95.9 94.7 94.5 93.0 91.6 89.3 88.1 86.6 85.7 83.3
Threshold 1
Acknowledged WLSMV 97.31 95.3 94.9 94.6 95.1 95.0 95.1 95.4 95.1 95.1 94.9
Ignored WLSMV 95.5 87.2 79.9 75.4 71.4 67.7 65.6 63.3 61.2 59.8 58.8
Ignored FIML 94.9 86.1 79.3 74.4 70.2 66.9 64.7 62.4 60.3 59.4 57.9
Ignored MCMC2 94.6 85.5 78.8 74.4 70.1 66.3 63.8 61.9 60.1 59.0 57.9
Threshold 2
Acknowledged WLSMV 97.51 95.1 95.1 95.2 94.9 95.2 95.0 95.0 95.0 94.8 94.9
Ignored WLSMV 41.7 32.7 28.3 25.0 22.5 20.0 18.6 17.2 16.1 15.1 14.0
Ignored FIML 15.0 14.6 12.9 11.8 10.7 9.9 8.9 8.4 7.9 7.4 7.0
Ignored MCMC2 94.4 83.6 73.9 64.0 56.2 49.7 44.3 39.6 36.1 33.2 30.9
Threshold 3
Acknowledged WLSMV 96.71 95.3 95.4 95.1 95.2 95.2 94.8 95.3 94.8 94.9 94.5
Ignored WLSMV 2.3 1.8 1.4 1.2 1.1 0.9 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.4 0.4
Ignored FIML 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2
Ignored MCMC2 94.3 82.7 63.5 46.2 33.3 25.2 18.4 14.6 11.1 8.8 7.0
Threshold 4
Acknowledged WLSMV 96.51 94.3 94.7 94.8 94.9 95.1 94.8 95.0 94.8 94.6 94.5
Ignored WLSMV 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ignored FIML 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ignored MCMC2 94.5 79.7 55.0 33.9 19.7 12.2 7.6 5.0 3.3 2.4 1.9
Threshold 5
Acknowledged WLSMV 95.71 94.3 94.4 95.0 94.5 95.2 95.2 94.8 94.4 94.0 93.8
Ignored WLSMV 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ignored FIML 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ignored MCMC2 93.9 80.8 52.1 28.3 15.7 8.3 4.5 3.0 1.8 1.4 0.8
Threshold 6
Acknowledged WLSMV 96.21 95.1 94.8 94.8 94.8 94.9 94.9 94.6 94.0 93.9 93.7
Ignored WLSMV 2.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ignored FIML 8.9 3.3 1.4 0.5 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Ignored MCMC2 93.6 84.3 57.9 31.7 17.5 9.6 5.3 2.9 1.7 1.0 0.6
1

Based on converged outputs (R = 64).

2

Based on 95% credibility interval.