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A Note on Sufficient Conditions that a Common Factor will be Determinate in an Infinite Domain of Variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Stanley A. Mulaik
Stanley A. Mulaik*
Affiliation:
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Abstract

It is proved for the common factor model with r common factors that under certain condition s which maintain the distinctiveness of each common factor a given common factor will be determinate if there exists an unlimited number of variables in the model each having an absolute correlation with the factor greater than some arbitrarily small positive quantity.

Keywords

factor analysisfactor indeterminacy

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Notes And Comments
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Psychometrika , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 105 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

The author is indebted to R. P. McDonald for suggesting the proof of Guttman’s determinantal equation for the squared multiple correlation in predicting a factor from the observed variables used in the parenthetical note.

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