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In Chapter 2 we examined the method of factor analysis using the centroid technique. It was stated then that the aim of the analysis was to explain the correlations between the original observed variables in terms of their correlations with a smaller set of factors. In this chapter we will examine two other methods of analysis, principal factor analysis and principal component analysis. The approach of the two methods is similar and their aim, to aid interpretation of the underlying structure of the interrelationships between variables, is the same. But there is in fact, as we shall see later, a fundamental difference between the two methods.
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© 1976 Spencer Bennett and David Bowers
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Bennett, S., Bowers, D. (1976). Principal Factor Analysis. In: An Introduction to Multivariate Techniques for Social and Behavioural Sciences. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15634-4_4
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