The Influence of Communality, Factor Strength, and Loading Size on the Sampling Characteristics of Factor Loadings
- 1 September 1967
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika
- Vol. 32 (3) , 309-326
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289594
Abstract
A Monte Carlo approach is employed in determining whether or not certain variables produce systematic effects on the sampling variability of individual factor loadings. A number of sample correlation matrices were generated from a specified population, factored, and transformed to a least-squares fit to the population values. Influences of factor strength, communality and loading size are discussed in relation to the statistics summarizing the results of the above procedures. Influences producing biased estimators of the population values are also discussed.Keywords
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