Common Factor Analysis versus Component Analysis: Some Well and Little Known Facts

Multivariate Behavioral Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 33-39

  Gorsuch, Richard L ^a  

^a FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

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EID: 0002178253     PISSN: 00273171     EISSN: 15327906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327906mbr2501_3     Document Type: Article

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