Relations of Factor Score Estimates to their Use

1 December 1971

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

Vol. 36 (4) , 427-436
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02291367

Abstract

Considerations of factor score estimates have concentrated on internal characteristics. This report considers external characteristics of four methods for determining factor score estimates; that is, relations of these estimates to measures on attributes not entered into the factor analysis. These external characteristics are important for many uses of factor score estimates. Findings are that different ones of the methods are appropriate for different uses.

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