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Application of a Large Sampling Criterion to Some Sampling Problems in Factor Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Dayle D. Rippe
Dayle D. Rippe*
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Operations Analysis Office, Strategic Air Command
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Abstract

A technique is presented to test the completeness of factor solutions and also to test the significance of common-component loadings. The chisquare test involved is based upon the asymptotic normal properties of the residuals.

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Psychometrika , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 1953 , pp. 191 - 205
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Copyright © 1953 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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The research work on which the results presented are based was conducted under the supervision of Prof. P. S. Dwyer, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan. The complete results of this research were presented in a Ph. D. thesis, June, 1951.

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