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Tutorials in Quantitative Methods for Psychology 2013, Vol. 9(2), p. 79-94. 79 A Beginner s Guide to Factor Analysis: Focusing on Exploratory Factor Analysis An Gie Yong and Sean Pearce University of Ottawa The following paper discusses exploratory Factor analysis and gives an overview of the statistical technique and how it is used in various research designs and applications. A basic outline of how the technique works and its criteria, including its main assumptions are discussed as well as when it should be used. Mathematical theories are explored to enlighten students on how exploratory Factor analysis works, an example of how to run an exploratory Factor analysis on SPSS is given, and finally a section on how to write up the results is provided.
room FSS-5006, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada. Email: ayong089@uottawa.ca. Factor analysis uses mathematical procedures for the simplification of interrelated measures to discover patterns in a set of variables (Child, 2006). Attempting to discover the simplest method of interpretation of observed data is known
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