What is rotating in exploratory factor analysis?

Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1-7

  Osborne, Jason W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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