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Factorial Invariance and Significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Gale Young  and
A. S. Householder
Gale Young
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
A. S. Householder
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago
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Abstract

It is shown that invariance requirements remove the indeterminacy in factor determination and lead to an integration of factorial studies with promise of considerable reduction in computational labor. The selection of significant primary factors is discussed, with special reference to Thurstone's simple structure criterion.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1940 , pp. 47 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © 1940 The Psychometric Society

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