ABSTRACT

This book is written primarily as a text for a course in factor analysis at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. It is most appropriate for students of the behavioral and social sciences, though colleagues and students in other disciplines also have used preliminary copies.

chapter 1|32 pages

Introduction and Spearman Approach

chapter 3|34 pages

Elements of Matrix Algebra

chapter 4|36 pages

Linear Computations

chapter 5|31 pages

The Principal-Axes Method

chapter 6|31 pages

Rotation of Axes

chapter 8|25 pages

Orthogonal Transformations

chapter 9|20 pages

Oblique Transformations

chapter 10|11 pages

Refinement Transformations

chapter 11|19 pages

Second-Order and Hierarchical Analysis

chapter 12|43 pages

Component Analysis

chapter 13|9 pages

Factor Scores

chapter 14|24 pages

Cluster Analysis of Variables

chapter 15|17 pages

Simplex Analysis

chapter 16|10 pages

Some Special Problems