Use hexagon for components and CR value

[Shinta Avriyanti]

I want to ask, why you use hexagon for component? And, why critical ratio (CR) value missing from result?  Thank you.. 

[heungsun.hwang]

By using a hexagon, we'd like to highlight that a component is not the same as a factor that has typically been denoted by a circle. Some authors have already suggested using a hexagon to indicate a component (e.g., Grace & Bollen, 2008). If you are interested in the difference between components and factors, you may look at the following paper. 

Hwang, H., Cho, G., Jung, K., Falk, C., Flake, J., Jin, M. J., & Lee, S. H. (2021). An approach to structural equation modeling with both factors and components: Integrated generalized structured component analysis. Psychological Methods, 26(3), 273–294. 

If you'd like to compute the CR of an estimate, you can simply divide the estimate by its standard error. To test the statistial signficance of an estimate "without a distributional assumption (e.g., normality),"  GSCA provides each estimate's 95% bootstrap confidence interval (CI). If an estimate's CI includes zero, the estimate may be considered statistically insignficant.  

Best,

Heungsun