Exploratory item factor analysis: Some additional consideration;El análisis factorial exploratorio de los ítems: Algunas consideraciones adicionales

Anales de Psicologia

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1170-1175

  Ferrando, Pere J ^a   Lorenzo Seva, Urbano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Graded response model; Orthogonal and oblique rotations; Polychoric correlations; Product moment correlations; Semi specified rotations; Simple structure; Target matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906487013     PISSN: 02129728     EISSN: 16952294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6018/analesps.30.3.199991     Document Type: Article

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