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The Determinacy of Common Factors in Large Item Domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

William W. Rozeboom
William W. Rozeboom*
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
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Requests for reprints should be addressed to William W. Rozeboom, Dept. of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E9.
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Abstract

Bounds are here developed for the multiple correlation of common factors with the items whose factors they are. It is then easy to see, under broad but not completely general conditions, the circumstances under which an infinite item domain does or does not perfectly determine selected subsets of its common factors.

Keywords

factor determinacyinfinite domains
Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , September 1982 , pp. 281 - 295
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 The Psychometric Society

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