A First Course in Factor Analysis by Comrey, Andrew Laurence -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition 1. Introduction

1.1 FACTOR ANALYTIC GOALS AND PROCEDURES 1.2 SOURCES OF DISAGREEMENT IN FACTOR ANALYTIC RESEARCH 1.3 PLAN OF THE BOOK

2. The Factor Analytic Model

2.1 THE SPECIFICATION EQUATION 2.2 THE FUNDAMENTAL EQUATION OF FACTOR ANALYSIS 2.3 FACTOR EXTRACTION 2.4 FACTOR ROTATION 2.5 GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION OF THE FACTOR MODEL

3. Factor Extraction by the Centroid Method

3.1 EQUATIONS FOR THE CENTROID METHOD 3.2 A FOUR-VARIABLE, TWO-FACTOR EXAMPLE 3.3 A 12-VARIABLE, FOUR-FACTOR EXAMPLE 3.4 ITERATING THE COMMUNALITIES

4. Methods of Factor Extraction

4.1 THE PRINCIPAL FACTOR METHOD 4.2 THE MINIMUM RESIDUAL METHOD 4.3 THE COMMUNALITIES 4.4 DETERMINING HOW MANY FACTORS TO EXTRACT 4.5 OTHER METHODS OF FACTOR EXTRACTION

5. Orthogonal Hand Rotations

5.1 INTRODUCTION 5.2 ORTHOGONAL ROTATION OF THE 12-VARIABLE PROBLEM

6. Oblique Hand Rotations

6.1 OBLIQUE FACTOR AXES 6.2 REFERENCE VECTOR STRUCTURE 6.3 OBLIQUE ROTATION OF THE 12-VARIABLE PROBLEM 6.4 OBTAINING THE ADDITIONAL MATRICES S, AND P 6.5 HAND ROTATED SOLUTIONS VERSUS ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS

7. Simple Structure and Other Rotational Criteria

7.1 INTRODUCTION 7.2 ALTERNATIVE CRITERIA FOR ROTATION 7.3 ANALYTIC METHODS OF ROTATION 7.4 THE KAISER VARIMAX METHOD 7.5 THE TANDEM CRITERIA METHOD 7.6 ONE STRATEGY FOR FACTOR ANALYTIC WORK

8. Planning the Standard Design Factor Analysis

8.1 SOME PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN 8.2 DATA VARIABLES 8.3 CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS 8.4 COMMON ERRORS IN THE USE OF FACTOR ANALYSIS

9. Alternate Designs in Factor Analysis

9.1 Q-TECHNIQUE 9.2 P-TECHNIQUE 9.3 LESSER KNOWN DESIGNS

10. Interpretation and Application of Factor Analytic Results

10.1 INTRODUCTION 10.2 FACTOR ANALYSIS AND MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS 10.3 FACTOR SCORES 10.4 REPORTING A FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDY 10.5 APPLICATIONS OF FACTOR ANALYSIS

11.1 STUDIES OF MMPI ITEMS 11.2 THE FHID APPROACH 11.3 FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDIES TO DEVELOP THE CPS TAXONOMY 11.4 FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE FHIDS IN THE CPS 11.5 VALIDATION OF A FACTOR ANALYTIC TAXONOMY 11.6 VALIDITY OF THE FACTORS MAKING UP THE CPS TAXONOMY

12. Confirmatory Factor Analysis

12.1 SOME MATHEMATICAL BACKGROUND 12.2 APPLYING CFA TO THE 12-VARIABLE SAMPLE PROBLEM 12.3 ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE MATRICES 12.4 ESTIMATING THE UNKNOWN CFA PARAMETERS 12.5 GOODNESS OF FIT 12.6 A TWO-SAMPLE EXAMPLE 12.7 A SECOND-ORDER FACTOR ANALYSIS 12.8 OTHER CFA APPROACHES

13. Structural Equation Models

13.1 REGRESSION MODELS 13.2 MEASURED VARIABLE MODELS 13.3 FACTOR ANALYTIC MODELS 13.4 UNRESTRICTED LATENT-VARIABLE MODELS 13.5 STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS AS “CAUSAL” MODELS 13.6 ADVANCED MODELS 13.7 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EQS AND LISREL NOTATION

14. Computer Programs

14.1 PROGRAM 1. SCORING 14.2 PROGRAM 2. REGRESSION PLOT 14.3 PROGRAM 3. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION 362 14.4 PROGRAM 4. SCALED SCORE EQUIVALENTS 14.5 PROGRAM 5. FACTOR ANALYSIS 14.6 PROGRAM 6. TANDEM CRITERIA 14.7 PROGRAM 7. VARIMAX ROTATION 14.8 PROGRAM 8. HAND ROTATION 14.9 PROGRAM 9. ANALYTIC OBLIQUE ROTATION 14.10 PROGRAM 10. MULTIPLE REGRESSION 14.11 PROGRAM 11. CENTROID FACTOR ANALYSIS 14.12 PROGRAM 12. OUTLIER DETECTION 14.13 COMMERCIAL COMPUTER PACKAGES

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