Abstract
Guttman's classic lower bound for the number of common factors is extended to the completely general case where communalities may lie in the closed interval from zero to one.
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- 14
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- 1
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- 1-2
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- 424
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Henry F. Kaiser
(1961).
A NOTE ON GUTTMAN'S LOWER BOUND FOR THE NUMBER OF COMMON FACTORS <sup>1</sup>.
British Journal of Statistical Psychology
, 14
(1)
, 1-2.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8317.1961.tb00061.x
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- 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1961.tb00061.x