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THE COMMON FACTOR ANALYSIS OF MULTICATEGORY DATA
Author(s) -
McDonald Roderick P.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.157
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2044-8317
pISSN - 0007-1102
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1969.tb00428.x
Subject(s) - principal component analysis , mathematics , contrast (vision) , factor (programming language) , latent variable , factor analysis , structural equation modeling , econometrics , statistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , programming language
An algorithm is described that serves to fit a linear latent structure model to multicategory data. The model has the formal properties of a (generalized) common factor model, in contrast to principal component analysis. An empirical example is given.