A Significance Test for Minimum Rank in Factor Analysis

1 December 1939

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

Vol. 4 (4) , 245-253
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02287937

Abstract

This paper presents a new method of determining the minimum rank in factor analysis, appropriate to the principal axes solution. The new method is compared with a former method which, with some adjustment, is more convenient for the centroid approach. Both methods are applied to two familiar examples.

Keywords

MINIMUM RANK
FACTOR ANALYSIS
SIGNIFICANCE TEST
RANK IN FACTOR
TWO FAMILIAR
FORMER METHOD
FAMILIAR EXAMPLES
CENTROID APPROACH

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

A Significance Test for Component Analysis
The Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 1937
Analysis of a complex of statistical variables into principal components.
Journal of Educational Psychology, 1933