Rotation to a Partially Specified Target Matrix in Exploratory Factor Analysis: How Many Targets?

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 131-147

  Myers, Nicholas D ^a   Ahn, Soyeon ^a   Jin, Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

communality; exploratory structural equation modeling; Monte Carlo; overdetermination; sample size; simulation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNALITY; MONTE CARLO; OVERDETERMINATION; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

FACTOR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84873347953     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705511.2013.742399     Document Type: Article

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