Determining the number of factors to retain: A Windows-based FORTRAN-IMSL program for parallel analysis

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 389-394

  Kaufman, Jennifer D ^a   Dunlap, William P ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; PSYCHOLOGY;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; MICROCOMPUTERS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034240918     PISSN: 07433808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/bf03200806     Document Type: Article

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