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Proportional Profiles and Latent Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

W. A. Gibson
W. A. Gibson*
Affiliation:
Personnel Research Branch Department of the Army
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Abstract

The identity of problem and solution in Lazarsfeld's latent structure analysis and Cattell's proportional profiles is pointed out. Anderson's latent structure solution is adapted to proportional profiles to yield a possible solution for the communality and rotational problems in factor analysis. A numerical example of the latter is provided.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , June 1956 , pp. 135 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © 1956 The Psychometric Society

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This paper was initiated at the University of North Carolina and completed at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

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