A definition for the common-factor analysis model and the elimination of problems of factor score indeterminacy

DOI10.1007/BF02293640zbMath0392.62042OpenAlexW2071902601MaRDI QIDQ1251873

James S. Williams

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Psychometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02293640

zbMATH Keywords

ExistenceUniquenessIndeterminacyDeterminatenessFactor Analysis ModelsSequence of Linearly Independent Response Random Variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

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