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A Simple Method of Factor Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Karl J. Holzinger
Karl J. Holzinger*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Abstract

A simple method for extracting correlated factors simultaneously is described. The method is based on the idea that the centroid pattern coefficients for the sections of unit rank of the complete matrix may be interpreted as structure values for the entire matrix. Only the routine centroid average process is required.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 1944 , pp. 257 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © 1944 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

Karl J. Holzinger and Harry H. Harman, Factor analysis, p. 24. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941.

†

Ibid., p. 16. A “structure” Sjs, is a matrix of correlations between tests and factors.

References

* Ibid., p. 390.

* Ibid., p. 169.

† Ibid., p. 192.

‡ Ibid., p. 245.

‖ Ibid., p. 61. See formula 3.50, which is here applied to averages of variables.

* Ibid., p. 386.

† Ibid., p. 19.

‡ Ibid., p. 327. (Here, T instead of S denotes structure.)