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Note about the Multiple Group Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

L. L. Thurstone*
Affiliation:
The University of Chicago

Abstract

This note directs attention to the basic similarity between a factor analysis method described by Holzinger in 1944 and what Thurstone has called the multiple group method. With minor modifications and the application of Holzinger's method in several successive cycles until the residuals vanish, the methods are essentially the same.

Type
Original Paper
Copyright
Copyright © 1949 The Psychometric Society

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References

Holzinger, Karl J. A simple method of factor analysis. Psychometrika, 1944, 9, 257262.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Thurstone, L. L. Multiple-factor analysis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947.Google Scholar