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Kaiser's measure of sampling adequacy is applied to a special Spearman matrix and a specialq-cluster generalization. The result supports the contention that the measure should be no less than .5 for data to be appropriate for factor analysis.
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Kaiser, H. F.The best approximation of a common-factor space (Report No. 25, Contract No. AF 41(657)-76). University of Illinois, 1958.
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The research reported in this note was supported in part by the Program in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, National Science Foundation, and by the National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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Meyer, E.P., Kaiser, H.F., Cerny, B.A. et al. MSA for a special spearman matrix. Psychometrika 42, 153–156 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02293753
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