Abstract
The inter-battery method of factor analysis was devised to provide information relevant to the stability of factors over different selections of tests. Two batteries of tests, postulated to depend on the same common factors, but not parallel tests, are given to one sample of individuals. Factors are determined from the correlation of the tests in one battery with the tests in the other battery. These factors are only those that are common to the two batteries. No communality estimates are required. A statistical test is provided for judging the minimum number of factors involved. Rotation of axes is carried out independently for the two batteries. A final step provides the correlation between factors determined by scores on the tests in the two batteries. The correlations between corresponding factors are taken as factor reliability coefficients.
Keywords
Battery (electricity)Reliability (semiconductor)StatisticsCorrelationSample (material)Stability (learning theory)Statistical hypothesis testingStatistical analysisFactor (programming language)MathematicsComputer scienceReliability engineeringEngineeringMachine learning
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- 1958
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- 23
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- 2
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- 111-136
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Ledyard R Tucker
(1958).
An Inter-Battery Method of Factor Analysis.
Psychometrika
, 23
(2)
, 111-136.
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02289009
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- 10.1007/bf02289009