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The October coup of 1917 and the Civil War negatively affected the fate of the country's population, particularly the Russian intellectuals. Representatives of the academic class, intellectuals, who are least adapted to disasters, had to fight for ...
Milyausha A. Akhmetova
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Best Practices for Your Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Factor Tutorial
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. Objective: the purpose of this article is
Pablo Rogers
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Constructing and Validating Professional Attitude Scale for Iranian TEFL Prospective Teachers [PDF]
This study was carried out to develop a new scale for measuring TEFL prospective teachers’ attitudes toward the teaching profession to be used as an instrument in the admission procedure of Iranian Teacher education Universities. The participants were
Abolfazl Khodamoradi, Mojtaba Maghsoudi
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BackgroundThe concept of Grit refers to a person’s ability to maintain perseverance and passion in the pursuit of long-term objectives. However, research on the applicability of the Grit-Original scale (Grit-O) in the Latin American context is limited ...
Cristian Ramos-Vera +5 more
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Building Consensus for Ambitious Climate Action Through the World Climate Simulation
Sociopolitical values are an important driver of climate change beliefs, attitudes, and policy preferences. People with “individualist‐hierarchical” values favor individual freedom, competition, and clearly defined social hierarchies, while ...
Juliette N. Rooney‐Varga +7 more
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Multimodal factor analysis [PDF]
A multimodal system with Poisson, Gaussian, and multinomial observations is considered. A generative graphical model that combines multiple modalities through common factor loadings is proposed. In this model, latent factors are like summary objects that has latent factor scores in each modality, and the observed objects are represented in terms of ...
Yasin Yilmaz 0001, Alfred O. Hero III
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Exploratory factor analysis with structured residuals for brain network data
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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Phylogenetic Factor Analysis [PDF]
51 pages (42 main, 9 supplemental), 9 figures (5 main, 4 supplemental), 4 tables (2 main, 2 supplemental), submitted to Systematic ...
Tolkoff, Max R. +4 more
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Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a statistical tool for digging out hidden factors which give rise to the diversity of manifest objectives in psychology, medicine and other sciences. EFA had its heyday as psychologist Leon Thurstone (1935 and 1948) based EFA on what he called the “principle of simple structure” (SS).
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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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