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Applied Psychometry is designed as a core textbook on practice of psychometry for undergraduate and post-graduate students of psychology and human resource management. It will help the students in their study of the following papers: B.A. Program Psychology (Core): Psychological Assessment B.A. Honors Psychology (Core): Psychology: Psychometry or Psychological Assessment 1 and 2 M.A. Psychology: Psychological Assessment 1 and 2 Human Resource Management: Recruitment and Selection, Psychological Assessment
Basics of Factor Analysis
Basics of Factor Analysis
Learning Objectives
At the end of this chapter, you will be able to understand:
- What is factor analysis and what are its major objectives?
- What are the various methods of factor analysis?
- What are communality, specificity and uniqueness, and how to compute them?
- What are R-type and Q-type factor analyses?
- What are main merits and limitations of factor analyses?
- What are the conditions under which we can factor analyse a given data set?
- What are the conditions when we cannot factor analyse?
Factor Analysis: Introduction
Factor analysis is a very broad term and does not ...
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