Exploratory Factor Analysis in Mplus, R and SPSS

  • In teaching, factor analysis and principal component analysis are often used together, although they are quite different methods. We first summarise the similarities and differences between both approaches. From submitted theses it appears that student have difficulties seeing the differences. Although books and online resources mention some of the differences they are incomplete. A view either oriented on the similarities or the differences is reflected in software implementations. We therefore look at the implementations of factor analysis in Mplus, R and SPSS and finish with some conclusions for the teaching of Multivariate Statistics.

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Author: Sigbert Klinke, Andrija Mihoci, Wolfgang Karl Härdle
URL:http://icots.info/8/cd/pdfs/invited/ICOTS8_4F4_KLINKE.pdf
ISBN:978-90-77713-54-9
Title of the source (English):8th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, 2010
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of publication:2010
Tag:Factor Analysis; Multivariate Statistics; Principal Components Analysis; Software
Number of pages:6
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 5 Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft / FG Wirtschaftsstatistik und Ökonometrie
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