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Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, Washington, D. C., September 4, 1967. This study was supported in part by the United States Office of Education, Cooperative Research Project No. S-192-64.

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Harris, C.W. On factors and factor scores. Psychometrika 32, 363–379 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289652

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