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Exploratory Factor Analysis

2018
Chapter 6 argues that exploratory factor analysis is an abductive method of theory generation that exploits a principle of scientific inference known as the principle of the common cause. Factor analysis is an important family of multivariate statistical methods that is widely used in the behavioral and social sciences.
Kimmo Vehkalahti, Brian S. Everitt
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Exploratory Factor Analysis

Advances in Developing Human Resources, 2014
The Problem Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) serves many useful purposes in human resource development (HRD) research. The most frequent applications of EFA among researchers consists of reducing relatively large sets of variables into more manageable ones, developing and refining a new instrument’s scales, and exploring relations among variables to ...
Thomas G. Reio, Brad Shuck
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Exploratory Factor Analysis

1988
The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of exploratory analysis to guide users in selecting appropriate procedures. While it will occasionally be necessary to present some new material to aid in selection of appropriate techniques, no new techniques are presented here.
Ira H. Bernstein   +2 more
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Exploratory Factor Analysis

2021
Douglas D. Gunzler   +2 more
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Exploratory Factor Analysis

2011
In many areas of psychology, and other disciplines in the behavioural sciences, often it is not possible to measure directly the concepts of primary interest. Two obvious examples are intelligence and social class. In such cases, the researcher is forced to examine the concepts indirectly by collecting information on variables that can be measured or ...
Brian Everitt, Torsten Hothorn
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Exploratory Factor Analysis

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2017
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