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Risky Business: Factor Analysis of Survey Data – Assessing the Probability of Incorrect Dimensionalisation

This paper undertakes a systematic assessment of the extent to which factor analysis the correct number of latent dimensions (factors) when applied to ordered-categorical survey items (so-called Likert items). We simulate 2400 data sets of uni-dimensional Likert items that vary systematically over a...

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Autores principales: van der Eijk, Cees, Rose, Jonathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25789992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118900