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Univocal or Orthogonal Estimators of Orthogonal Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Emil F. Heermann
Emil F. Heermann*
Affiliation:
Army Personnel Research Office
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Abstract

The defects of the least-squares or multiple-regression equation approach to estimating orthogonal factors are discussed and transformations of the beta weights are derived which remove these defects with minimum loss in correlations between estimators and true factor scores.

Type
Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , June 1963 , pp. 161 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © 1963 The Psychometric Society

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The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect official Department of the Army policy.

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