Impact of Outliers Arising From Unintended and Unknowingly Included Subpopulations on the Decisions About the Number of Factors in Exploratory Factor Analysis

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 388-414

  Liu, Yan ^a   Zumbo, Bruno D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

exploratory factor analysis; number of factors; outliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864795213     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: 15523888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164411429821     Document Type: Article

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