Stepwise variable selection in factor analysis

Psychometrika

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-22

  Kano, Yutaka ^a   Harada, Akira ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backward elimination; Forward selection; Goodness of fit measure; Lagrange multiplier test; Likelihood ratio test, stepwise variable selection; Wald test; World wide web (www)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034344853     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294182     Document Type: Article

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