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Quadratic Prediction of Factor Scores
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2025
Abstract
Factor scores are naturally predicted by means of their conditional expectation given the indicators y. Under normality this expectation is linear in y but in general it is an unknown function of y. It is discussed that under nonnormality factor scores can be more precisely predicted by a quadratic function of y.
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The authors would like to thank Edith Nijenhuis, the anonymous referees, and the associate editor for their helpful comments and suggestions.
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