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This paper describes a simple orthogonal multiple factor approximation procedure that involves no inversion of the sign of negative residuals, the estimation of only as many communalities as there are factors, and none or only a few minor rotations of the axes in an attempt to obtain a “meaningful” solution. It also suggests a technique for the estimation of those communalities that must be estimated. The factor loadings obtained by means of this procedure, which we shall designate as the pre-selection procedure, are affected by the order in which the factors are obtained, showing a reduction in variance accounted for by each successive factor, as is characteristic of the centroid, bi-factor, and principal factor solutions. The entire procedure takes considerably less time than that involved in the orthodox centroid method alone.
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Carlson, H.B. A simple orthogonal multiple factor approximation procedure. Psychometrika 10, 283–301 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02288893
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02288893