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Relations of Factor Score Estimates to their Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Ledyard R Tucker
Ledyard R Tucker*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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Abstract

Considerations of factor score estimates have concentrated on internal characteristics. This report considers external characteristics of four methods for determining factor score estimates; that is, relations of these estimates to measures on attributes not entered into the factor analysis. These external characteristics are important for many uses of factor score estimates. Findings are that different ones of the methods are appropriate for different uses.

Keywords

Public PolicyStatistical TheoryFactor ScoreInternal CharacteristicExternal Characteristic
Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 427 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © 1971 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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Supported in part by the Personnel and Training Branch of the Office of Naval Research under contract number 00014-67-A-0305-0003.

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