Table 4 Measurement invariance across diabetes status and gender in multi-group CFA.

From: Intercorrelated variability in blood and hemodynamic biomarkers reveals physiological network in hemodialysis patients

Models

χ2 (df)

χ2/df

CFI

TLI

RMSEA

AIC

BIC

DM/non-DM

 Configural

240.4 (174)

1.38

0.960

0.945

0.049

− 6485

− 5989

 Metric

257.1 (186)

1.38

0.957

0.945

0.049

− 6492

− 6042

 Scalar

279.4 (196)

1.43

0.950

0.939

0.052

− 6490

− 6078

 Strict

307.2 (212)

1.45

0.945

0.937

0.053

− 6494

− 6144

Male/female

 Configural

240.6 (174)

1.38

0.962

0.947

0.049

− 6470

− 5974

 Metric

257.7 (186)

1.39

0.959

0.947

0.048

− 6477

− 6027

 Scalar

283.2 (196)

1.44

0.951

0.940

0.052

− 6471

− 6059

 Strict

333.4 (209)

1.59

0.926

0.915

0.062

− 6447

− 6084

Differences in the fit indices

Δχ2 (df)

ΔP

ΔCFI

ΔTLI

ΔRMSEA

  

DM/non-DM

 Metric–configural

17.3 (12)

0.137

− 0.003

0.001

0.000

  

 Scalar–metric

22.9 (10)

0.011

− 0.007

− 0.006

0.003

  

 Strict–scalar

24.4 (16)

0.081

− 0.005

− 0.002

0.001

  

Female/male

 Metric–configural

15.6 (12)

0.210

− 0.002

0.001

0.000

  

 Scalar–metric

23.9 (10)

0.001

− 0.008

− 0.007

0.003

  

 Strict–scalar

108.3 (13)

0.000

− 0.025

− 0.025

0.010

  
  1. DM diabetes mellitus, χ2 chi-square, df degree of freedom, Δχ2 chi-square difference, AIC Akaike Information Criterion, BIC Bayesian Information Criterion.