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A Note on the Reflection of Signs in the Extraction of Centroid Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

J. W. Holley
J. W. Holley*
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Abstract

This note suggests that the reflection of residuals in the centroid method of factor analysis should be continued, whenever possible, after all the sums of the columns in the correlation matrix, excluding diagonal values, are positive. A criterion is given for determining whether further reflection is possible in such cases.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 1947 , pp. 263 - 265
Copyright
Copyright © 1947 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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Thurstone, L. L. The vectors of the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1935.