Application of a Large Sampling Criterion to Some Sampling Problems in Factor Analysis

1 September 1953

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychometrika

Vol. 18 (3) , 191-205
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289056

Abstract

A technique is presented to test the completeness of factor solutions and also to test the significance of common-component loadings. The chisquare test involved is based upon the asymptotic normal properties of the residuals.

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