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Describes various commonly used methods of initial factoring and factor rotation. In addition to a full discussion of exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and various methods of constructing factor scales are also presented
Methods of Extracting Initial Factors
Methods of Extracting Initial Factors
The main objective of the extraction step in exploratory factor analysis is to determine the minimum number of common factors that would satisfactorily produce the correlations among the observed variables. If there are no measurement and sampling errors and the assumption of factorial causation is appropriate for the ...