Testing a Simple Structure Hypothesis in Factor Analysis

1 June 1966

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

Vol. 31 (2) , 165-178
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289505

Abstract

It is assumed that the investigator has set up a simple structure hypothesis in the sense that he has specified the zero loadings of the factor matrix. The maximum-likelihood method is used to estimate the factor matrix and the factor correlation matrix directly without the use of rotation methods, and the likelihood-ratio technique is used to test the simple structure hypothesis. Numerical examples are presented.

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