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A nomogram for factor analysts

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When a new reference vector is chosen graphically from the plane of two old ones, its direction cosines as well as the projections of the tests on it are most easily computed by applying certain multipliersd andSd to quantities which are already known. The nomogram quickly suppliesd, afterS has been read from the graph.

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  1. Thurstone, L. L. Multiple-factor analysis. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1947.

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  1. University of California, USA

    P. D. Deuel

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Suggestions by Norman Livson, Thomas Nichols, and Karyl Atherton have been incorporated in the nomogram. Mrs. Atherton also checked the necessary computations. In addition, I am obligated to Katherine Eardley, scientific illustrator, for her care in lettering and inking the original.

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Deuel, P.D. A nomogram for factor analysts. Psychometrika 21, 291–294 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289139

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