Evaluation of parallel analysis methods for determining the number of factors

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 885-901

  Crawford, Aaron V ^a   Green, Samuel B ^a   Levy, Roy ^a   Lo, Wen Juo ^b   Scott, Lietta ^a   Svetina, Dubravka ^a   Thompson, Marilyn S ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

factor analysis; number of factors; parallel analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957942372     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164410379332     Document Type: Article

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