How to factor-analyze your data right: do’s, don’ts, and how-to’s.
How to factor-analyze your data right: do’s, don’ts, and how-to’s.
The current article provides a guideline for conducting factor analysis, a technique used to estimate the population-level factor structure underlying the given sample data. First, the distinction between exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) is briefly discussed; along with this discussion, the notion of principal component analysis and …