Factor Analysis by MINRES
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چکیده
The basic idea of exploratory factor analysis is the following. For a given set of observed response variables one wants to find a set of latent factors, fewer in number than the observed variables. These factors are supposed to account for the intercorrelations of the response variables in the sense that when the factors are partialed out from the observed variables, there should no longer remain any correlations between these. The term exploratory means that one does not know how many factors are needed nor does one know the factorial nature of the observed variables. Before 1970 the term factor analysis was used without the word exploratory ; this term was added later to distinguish it from confirmatory factor analysis introduced around 1969 (see, e.g., Jöreskog, 1969)
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