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Publication Date: 2014
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A Primer on Bootstrap Factor Analysis as Applied to Health Studies Research
Lu, Wenhua; Miao, Jingang; McKyer, E. Lisako J.
American Journal of Health Education, v45 n4 p199-204 2014
Objectives: To demonstrate how the bootstrap method could be conducted in exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with a syntax written in SPSS. Methods: The data obtained from the Texas Childhood Obesity Prevention Policy Evaluation project (T-COPPE project) were used for illustration. A 5-step procedure to conduct bootstrap factor analysis (BFA) was introduced: (1) conduct principal component analysis, (2) create the target matrix, (3) resample with replacement, (4) conduct EFA and Procrustes rotation, and (5) calculate BFA results. Results: Results of the illustrated BFA example indicated that the 15 variables from this study were stable across the resamples. Conclusions: The bootstrap method, when applied in EFA for health-related research, is a particularly powerful internal replicability analysis.
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Obesity, Prevention, Health, Children, State Policy, Statistical Analysis
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