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A Note on the Effects of Selection in Factor Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

James W. Degan
James W. Degan*
Affiliation:
Psychometric Laboratory, University of Chicago
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Abstract

Professor Godfrey Thomson, in a communication to this laboratory, has drawn our attention to certain computational and editorial errors in a recent publication on the effects of selection in factor analysis. The purpose of this note is to rectify these errors. In so doing, we wish to express our gratitude to Professor Thomson for preventing their prepetuation.

Since the particular tables under consideration appear also in Chapter XIX, “The Effects of Selection,” of and are identical with those of, the material presented in this note is equally applicable to both publications. These tables were numbered identically in both and may be referred to non-differentially. In order to facilitate the exposition in this note, the numbers assigned to each of the corrected tables and figure correspond to the analogous tables and figure of the original publications.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1948 , pp. 87 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © 1948 The Psychometric Society

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