How meaningful or informative is it to follow an Exploratory Factor Analysis with Confirmatory Factor Analysis that uses exactly the same indicators and factors?
My goal is to use various CFA methods (such as ML, Satorra-Bentler, Yuan-Bentler, Bollen-Stine, WLS and DWL) to demonstrate in detail how well the model specified by the EFA fits the data.
Do you think this is a good idea? Or is it unnecessary?
Please advise.
Thanks.