The development of hierarchical factor solutions

Psychometrika - Tập 22 - Trang 53-61 - 1957
John Schmid1, John M. Leiman1
1Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center, USA

Tóm tắt

Although simple structure has proved to be a valuable principle for rotation of axes in factor analysis, an oblique factor solution often tends to confound the resulting interpretation. A model is presented here which transforms the oblique factor solution so as to preserve simple structure and, in addition, to provide orthogonal reference axes. Furthermore, this model makes explicit the hierarchical ordering of factors above the first-order domain.

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