Peter Prudon

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What happens to cross-loadings of items of a multi-dimensional questionnaire after oblique rotation of factors that, say, correlate .40?

The β-weights of the items in the factor pattern will be substantially reduced, I suppose, but will that be true for the item-factor correlations in the factor structure as well?

02 February 2016 2,572 5 View

A second annoying publication custom in present scientific journals

Several journals today have substituted literature references in the text by numbers instead of author names, followed by the year of publication. To know which author had uttered or supported the...

09 September 2014 9,399 4 View

An annoying publication custom in present scientific journals

For a number of years, authors in (scientific) journals and books are expected not to use any of the abbreviations that were once common, except a few ones, like etc., e.g., i.e. Likewise, journal...

09 September 2014 8,528 2 View

Who is familiar with the oblique multiple group method of factor analysis?

Holzinger (Psychometrika, vol. 9, no. 4, Dec. 1944) and Thurstone (Psychometrika, vol. 10, no. 2, June 1945; vol. 14, no. 1, March, 1949) discussed an alternative method for factoring a...

10 October 2013 9,652 3 View

Are the problems with goodness of fit in CFA due to having no correction for the mean intercorrelation within the clusters?

Generally high within cluster correlations yield higher residuals than generally low within cluster correlations (abslute values). Consequenlty, the fit seems better with high unique variance and...

09 September 2013 4,869 3 View

Significance of the difference between two correlation matrices

The statistical significance of the difference between two correlation coefficients can be calculated if the sample sizes are known. However, I wonder is there also a way to calculate the...

01 January 1970 2,854 21 View