Techniques for oblique factor rotation of two or more loading matrices to a mixture of simple structure and optimal agreement

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 337-360

  Lorenzo Seva, Urbano ^a   Kiers, Henk A L ^b   Ten Berge, Jos M F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY;

EID: 0036832805     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711002760554624     Document Type: Article

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