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A Synthetic Approach to Factor Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Karl J. Holzinger
Karl J. Holzinger*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Psychometrika , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 1940 , pp. 235 - 250
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Copyright © 1940 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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Address of the retiring President of the Psychometric Society at Pennsylvania State College, September, 1940 based upon a treatise “Factor Analysis” by Karl J. Holzinger and Harry H. Harman (in Press).

References

† Curetan, Edward E., The principal compulsions of factor-analysts, Harvard educ. Review, May, 1939, p. 287.

* Spearman, Charles. General intelligence, objectively determined and measured. Am. J. Psychol., 1904, 15, 201-293.

* Yule, G. Udny and Kendall, M. G. An introduction to the theory of statistics. London: Charles Griffin & Co., Limited, 1937. Eleventh Edition. Chapter XII.

† The application of higher-dimensional ellipsoids in the field of factor analysis was proposed by Truman L. Kelley at a meeting of the Unitary Traits Committee in 1933.

* Burt, Cyril. The factorial analysis of emotional traits. Character and Personality, 1939, 7, 238-254, 285-299,