Some Cautionary Notes on Factor Loadings Estimated by Principal Component Analysis

Sato, Manabu; Ito, Masaaki

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Manabu Sato¹ &
Masaaki Ito²

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Factor loadings are often calculated by principal component analysis. Then, the loadings calculated with some eigenvalues in descending order are interpreted. In the present paper, we show that this procedure is not always an appropriate method; some such numerical examples and corresponding analytical results are presented for some six-variable two-component model.

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Center for Foundational Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima Prefectural College of Health Sciences, 1-1, Gakuen-machi, Mihara, Hiroshima, 723-0053, Japan
Manabu Sato
Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan
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H. Yanai A. Okada K. Shigemasu Y. Kano J. J. Meulman

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Sato, M., Ito, M. (2003). Some Cautionary Notes on Factor Loadings Estimated by Principal Component Analysis. In: Yanai, H., Okada, A., Shigemasu, K., Kano, Y., Meulman, J.J. (eds) New Developments in Psychometrics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66996-8_11

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