TESTING THE NULL HYPOTHESIS FOR ROTATION TO A TARGET

1 July 1974

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Multivariate Behavioral Research

Vol. 9 (3) , 303-309
https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327906mbr0903_5

Abstract

This study proposes and illustrates a method for estimating the degree to which a factor rotation to an hypothesized target represents an improvement over rotation to a random target. The original hypothesized target matrix is transformed so that the direction of targeted salients is randomly determined with the restriction that the new target is orthogonal to the original. When applied to a factor matrix of content and response style measures, the hypothesized target yielded a decidedly better fit to the data than did the random target.

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