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The Reliability of Component Scores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Frederick B. Davis
Frederick B. Davis*
Affiliation:
Cooperative Test Service of the American Council on Education
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Abstract

A method is given for determining the reliability of each of the components resulting from a factor analysis by the principal axis method.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1945 , pp. 57 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © 1945 Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

On leave for military service.

†

P. G. Hoel. A significance test for component analysis. Annals of Math. Stat., 8, 149-158.

‡

The writer is indebted to Dr. T. L. Kelley for pointing out the importance of this problem and outlining the method of obtaining component reliabilities.

§

T. L. Kelley. A variance-ratio test of the uniqueness of principal-axis components as they exist at any stage of the Kelley iterative process for their determination. Psychometrika, 1944, 9, 199-200.

References

* Frederick B. Davis. Fundamental factors of comprehension in reading. Psychometrika, 1944, 9, 185-197.

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