Realism and Uncertainty of Unobservable Common Causes in Factor Analysis

DOI10.1111/nous.12075zbMath1360.62022OpenAlexW2156366724MaRDI QIDQ2965378

Kent Johnson

Publication date: 3 March 2017

Published in: Noûs (Search for Journal in Brave)

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

zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintyrealismfactor analysisfactor 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) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

Uses Software

• R
• psych

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