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Exploratory factor analysis with structured residuals for brain network data

open access: yesNetwork Neuroscience, 2021
Dimension reduction is widely used and often necessary to make network analyses and their interpretation tractable by reducing high-dimensional data to a small number of underlying variables.
Erik-Jan van Kesteren, Rogier A. Kievit
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Best Practices for Your Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Factor Tutorial

open access: yesRAC: Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 2021
Context: exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is one of the statistical methods most widely used in administration; however, its current practice coexists with rules of thumb and heuristics given half a century ago.
Pablo Rogers
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Application of factor analysis in company management – selected examples related to competitiveness and market success

open access: yesEngineering Management in Production and Services, 2021
Factor analysis is a standard statistical technique for reducing data dimensionality, which is widely used in sociology, psychology, and demography. Also, financial and insurance institutions commonly use such a technique for marketing research.
Jurczak Jolanta, Jurczak Grzegorz
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Statistical concerns, invalid construct validity, and future recommendations

open access: yesNursing Practice Today, 2023
The need for accurate measurement of constructs and understanding of diverse phenomena has prompted researchers to investigate the validity and reliability of developed measures in a continuous effort to improve our understanding of their psychometric ...
Hamid Sharif-Nia   +5 more
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Scale on Stress among Parents having only Daughters: Developing a Reliable Measure

open access: yesPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2023
Objective: To develop a reliable scale to measure stress among parents with only daughters. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Psychology, University of Gujrat, Gujrat Pakistan, from May to Jul 2019.
Saima Riaz   +3 more
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Challenges and recommendations of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: A narrative review from a nursing perspective [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Nursing Reports in Clinical Practice, 2023
Factor analysis is a statistical method used to explore the underlying structure of a set of variables. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) are two widely used methods in this domain.
Amir Hossein Goudarzian
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A Comparison of Methods for Determining the Number of Factors to Retain with Exploratory Factor Analysis of Dichotomous Data

open access: yesPsych, 2023
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a very widely used statistical procedure in the social and behavioral sciences. This technique features in validity studies, as well as investigations of latent structure underlying observed measurements.
W. Holmes Finch
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Identification and classification of the critical success factors (CSFs) of Bancassurance Implementation in Iran [PDF]

open access: yes‫مدیریت بازرگانی, 2014
Due to the created change in the approach to financial services and the idea of providing a united financial service, Bancassurance is a concept that is attracting growing attention from both the insurance and banking industry, to be able to creat ...
Masoud Kiemasi   +2 more
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Designing and validating a coaching model based on choice theory in Farhangiān University [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه نوآوری‌های آموزشی, 2022
The coaching ability of the student-teachers in the educational environment is a key competence for any teacher. The purpose of this study was to design and validate a coaching model based on the choice theory at the University. It was a sequential mixed-
Seyed Aliakbar Mortazavi Emāmi   +3 more
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Fairness in classroom assessment: development and validation of a questionnaire

open access: yesLanguage Testing in Asia, 2022
Although fairness in assessment practices has gained noticeable attention over the recent years, there has been a long-lasting study to design and validate a questionnaire to measure it from a psychometric perspective.
Afsheen Rezai
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