Realism and uncertainty of unobservable common causes in factor analysis

DOI10.1111/NOUS.12075MaRDI QIDQ2965378zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kent Johnson

Publication date 3 March 2017

Published in Nôus (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12075

zbMATH Keywords

factor analysisuncertaintyrealismfactor analytic model (FA)unobservable common causes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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