The Multiple Factor Theory in Terms of Common Elements
- 1 March 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 4 (1) , 59-68
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02287993
Abstract
With the mechanism of common elements we designed numerous sets of variates correlated with each other in a known manner and also correlated with the primary and specific factors in the same predetermined fashion. To the correlations from theoretical populations, and also from experimental samples, Thurstone's centroid method of factoring was applied. The resulting centroid co-ordinates were rotated to yield the test vectors. These vectors were close approximations to the theoretical and sample correlations.Keywords
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