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Application of a large sampling criterion to some sampling problems in factor analysis

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Abstract

A technique is presented to test the completeness of factor solutions and also to test the significance of common-component loadings. The chisquare test involved is based upon the asymptotic normal properties of the residuals.

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  1. Operations Analysis Office, Strategic Air Command, USA

    Dayle D. Rippe

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The research work on which the results presented are based was conducted under the supervision of Prof. P. S. Dwyer, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan. The complete results of this research were presented in a Ph. D. thesis, June, 1951.

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Rippe, D.D. Application of a large sampling criterion to some sampling problems in factor analysis. Psychometrika 18, 191–205 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289056

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