Determining the number of factors to retain in EFA: Using the SPSS R-Menu v2.0 to make more judicious estimations

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1-14

  Courtney, Matthew Gordon Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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