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Factor AnalysisRosie Cornish. IntroductionThis handout is designed to provide only a brief introduction to Factor Analysis and how it isdone. Books giving further details are listed at the for principal components Analysis , Factor Analysis is a multivariate method used for datareduction purposes. Again, the basic idea is to represent a set of variables by a smaller numberof variables. In this case they are calledfactors. These factors can be thought of as underlyingconstructs that cannot be measured by a single variable ( happiness).2 AssumptionsFactor Analysis is designed for interval data, although it can also be used for ordinal data( scores assigned to Likert scales).
Statistics: 3.3 Factor Analysis Rosie Cornish. 2007. 1 Introduction This handout is designed to provide only a brief introduction to factor analysis and how it is done. Books giving further details are listed at the end. As for principal components analysis, factor analysis is a multivariate method used for data reduction purposes.
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