Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Quantifying Liver-Stomach Disharmony Pattern of Functional Dyspepsia Using Multidimensional Analysis Methods

Table 5

Estimates for the multidimensional model of liver-stomach disharmony pattern of FD.


Factor	Item	Unstd.	Std	SMC	CR	AVE

F1	Item 1	3.52	0.58	0.34	0.61	0.28
	Item 2	5.09	0.87	0.76	—	—
	Item 3	1.00	0.28	0.08	—	—
	Item 4	2.69	0.41	0.17	—	—
	Item 5	0.98	0.23	0.05	—	—

F2	Item 6	0.88	0.69	0.48	0.66	0.34
	Item 7	0.90	0.70	0.48	—	—
	Item 8	1.00	0.83	0.70	—	—

F3	Item 9	1.29	0.51	0.26	0.79	0.55
	Item 10	1.42	0.73	0.53	—	—
	Item 11	1.00	0.67	0.45	—	—
	Item 12	0.45	0.36	0.13	—	—

FD: functional dyspepsia; Unstd: unstandardized factor loading; Std: standardized factor loading; SMC: square multiple correlation; CR: composite reliability; AVE: average variance extracted; .